Carrie
12-20-2005, 01:40 PM
The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/20/sober_worm_nets_criminal/)
By John Leyden
Published Tuesday 20th December 2005
A child porn suspect turned himself in to the police after mistaking an email generated by a prolific internet worm for an official notice he was under investigation.
The unnamed 20-year-old German man mistook a message produced by the Sober-Z worm for an email from Germany's Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Crime Office) supposedly telling him his visits to illegal websites had been logged. He went to police in the city of Paderborn who charged the man after reportedly recovering images of child abuse from his computer.
Full Story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/20/sober_worm_nets_criminal/)
By John Leyden
Published Tuesday 20th December 2005
A child porn suspect turned himself in to the police after mistaking an email generated by a prolific internet worm for an official notice he was under investigation.
The unnamed 20-year-old German man mistook a message produced by the Sober-Z worm for an email from Germany's Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Crime Office) supposedly telling him his visits to illegal websites had been logged. He went to police in the city of Paderborn who charged the man after reportedly recovering images of child abuse from his computer.
Full Story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/20/sober_worm_nets_criminal/)