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The Aiken Standard reports that an Evans, Ga., man was arrested on charges that he attempted to lure a 14-year-old girl he met on the internet to meet him for sex. According to South Carolina's attorney general, the man was arrested on February 18, 2010 during an Internet predator investigation conducted by the Aiken County Sheriff's Office. The man was cited with criminal solicitation of a minor, which is a felony offense that can lead to up to 10 years of jail time.

The arrest warrant indicates that beginning in mid-January, 2010 the man used MySpace to make arrangements to meet with a person identifying herself as a 14-year-old girl for the purpose of a sexual tryst. The situation was turned over to the Aiken County Sheriff's Office before any encounter took place. A subsequent inquiry to MySpace provided information which lead to the suspect. The Columbia County Sheriff's Office served a search warrant at the man's home and deputies removed three computers.

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According to an 11alive.com article, an unnamed accomplice and numerous Eastern Europeans have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly hacking into an Atlanta-based credit card processing company (RBS WorldPay) computer network and thieving $9 million. Some of the charges filed in the indictment included:

• Conspiracy to commit computer fraud


• Computer fraud


• Conspiracy to commit wire fraud


• Wire fraud


• Aggravated identity theft

In relation to the above charges, the indictment alleges that the group utilized refined hacking techniques to create the data encryption that was implemented by RBS WorldPay to protect customer data on payroll debit cards. Atlanta’s RBS WorldPay and many other companies across the United States use payroll debit cards to pay their employees in which they can withdraw their regular salaries from an ATM.

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The ajc.com website reported in a story on March 10, 2009 that local, state, and federal agents had conducted a state wide sweep in Georgia which had resulted in the arrest of 27 people and more than 100 computers being confiscated. Two teenagers were amongst those arrested for possession of child pornography in Georgia. Now the forensic technicians will have to spend hour after hour searching for any trace of child porn pictures or video.

John Bankhead, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said the operation was called “Operation Shattered Innocence” and that for the most part, all arrests were carried out. However, more arrest warrants will most likely be issued, including some for teenagers after investigators go through the hard drives.

Investigators say that investigation did not center on an individual website but on the “peer to peer” sites that exchange videos and pictures. As arrest warrants were executed for these Georgia sex crimes, many were shocked to see law enforcement at their door. Agents found one man standing nude in front of his computer that had a camera connected to it.

Some computers were left behind even though they were suspected of sending or receiving child porn. According to Bankhead, the reason for this is that those computers were connected to the Internet with an unsecured connection. This means that anyone within reach of your signal can be downloading those images aside from the owner of the computer.

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