Iowa's Phishing Kingpin Can't Make Crime Pay

Posted by zanek on May 23, 2006 12:28 AM EDT
Email Battles; By BJ Gillette
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Jayson Harris was the irritant that helped mold the legal approach now commonly used by Microsoft's crack Internet Safety Enforcement Team. In fact, he's logged two firsts: The Harris case is the first civil case filed by Microsoft related to phishing, and the biggest phishing case in Iowa's history. Microsoft actually calls him the "MSN Billing Phisher." So why the short sentence and puny fine?

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