True Crime Online Newsletter - January 28, 2013
I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Police called to apartment over video game
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/01/2
Police in Sweden raided an apartment after receiving a report of gunfire and cries of help only to find several teenagers playing a computer game.
The teenagers were playing the game "Call of Duty Saturday" night when one of the boy's characters was killed after being shot several times and was left laying on the floor, screaming "help, help, help," Swedish news agency TT reported.
Passersby heard the game and thought it was real and called police.
A 10-person police unit was dispatched to the apartment and carried out a raid there, forcing the boys outside.
After the teenagers were out of the apartment, they were able to explain to the police that they were just playing a game.
Police left the apartment without taking anyone into custody or writing any citations.
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(DISCLAIMER: The following news items were found on the web and were not written or endorsed by WHO@; they are for informational purposes only)
The dark web stole my life says the BBC's Ed Stourton: Hackers took hundreds of private emails - and set about ripping off all my friends - 01/28/13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
Last week, I picked up an evening paper and read that I was stuck in the Philippines without money after being attacked by ‘unknown gunmen’. As I was standing under a large London Underground sign on my way out to dinner with friends, I was reasonably confident the report wasn’t true. But I did have an uneasy sense of losing grip on reality. That morning had begun with an unsettling phone call from a cousin in Jersey. A retired Army officer, he informed me that I had been hacked. He had received an email from my address, which told the same sorry tale of armed robbery in Manila.
How I turned the tables on my trolls: Mary Beard suffered vile online abuse about her looks after appearing Question Time - 01/26/13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
Mary Beard OBE, Professor of Classics at Cambridge, is author of a dozen books, writer and presenter of BBC2’s BAFTA-nominated Pompeii and Meet The Romans, and a regular on Radio 4, Newsnight and Question Time. Today, she is sipping a cappuccino, peering at me through smeary specs and speaking very calmly, clearly (and loudly) about the myriad unspeakable, disgusting and abusive online comments she has received over the past week in what must surely be one of the most truly monstrous episodes of internet trolling ever.
US woman sues Match.com for $10m after man she met on the site tried to kill her with a butcher's knife and stomped on her head when she dumped him after eight days - 01/25/13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
A Nevada woman who was attacked by a man she met on Match.com is suing the dating website for failing to alert her of the dangers that come with an online match. Mary Kay Beckman, 50, met Wade Ridley on the site in 2010 but when she ended their courtship after eight days, Mr Ridley stabbed her with a butcher knife 10 times and stomped on her head.
Email lands man in jail - 01/25/13
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_
A man accused of harassing a woman with annoying emails and text messages is behind bars today after sending her an email telling her he was deploying to another country. The woman reported to police Wednesday that she has been receiving frequent and harassing messages from Taylor Brandon Patterson, 22, a former friend.
Respectable face of newlywed hacker whose cyber attacks paralysed PayPal - 01/24/13
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
Newly married and with a respectable job, he seems like an unlikely anarchist computer hacker. But within months of posing for pictures with his wife at their lavish wedding, Ashley Rhodes helped launch cyber-attacks on global financial institutions causing multi-million-pound losses. He was a member of the shadowy hacking group Anonymous, which ‘caused unprecedented harm’ to Visa, MasterCard and the online payment firm PayPal.
Indiana girl, 16, allegedly drives 60 miles in pickup truck to beat up another girl over Facebook insults - 01/24/13
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/24/in
Police in northwestern Indiana say a 16-year-old girl allegedly drove 60 miles to beat up another girl who spread rumors about her on Facebook. The alleged 17-year-old victim and her mother told police the other girl drove from Monticello to their LaPorte home in a pickup truck early Sunday morning. Police said the Monticello teen knocked the LaPorte girl down and kicked her when she went outside to meet her.
Paedophile, 25, had sex with girl, 12, as he hid in her bedroom for TWO DAYS while her unknowing parents sat downstairs - 01/24/13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
A paedophile who hid in a 12-year-old girl's bedroom and had sex with her for two days while her unknowing parents sat downstairs has been jailed. Leigh Arendse, 25, of Brunswick Park, Barnet, groomed the innocent youngster on an internet chat room before going from London to her Cambridgeshire home to meet her.
Banks spying on customers and monitoring their spending habits to sell targeted online advertising - 01/23/13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/s
Banks are to pry on customers’ spending habits to bombard them with adverts and offers on their internet accounts. Money Mail has discovered a major High Street bank plans to start hitting customers with specially targeted adverts for offers and discounts each time they check their balance online.
Man hid camera for breast pumping - 01/23/13
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/0
Authorities in Oregon said a man was arrested for allegedly hiding a camera on a co-worker's desk to record her using a breast pump. Portland Police Sgt. Pete Simpson said Russell Gordon, 44, allegedly concealed the pen camera on his co-worker's desk at the MB&G consulting firm, where he has been employed as IT manager for more than 10 years, KGW-TV, Portland, reported Wednesday.
Tempted to vent about work online? You could get fired - 01/23/13
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Tempt
A single sentence posted on Facebook changed Amy McClenathan’s life forever. It was a very small sentence, but it was one of the most powerful sentences I’ve ever typed in my life,” she said. McClenathan says she was having a rough day near the one year anniversary of her mother’s death. She says she was not in the mood to be at work that day.
Michigan Man Indicted on Charges of Cyberstalking and Production of Child Pornography - 01/23/13
http://www.fbi.gov/buffalo/press-releas
U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted James S. Allen, 36, of New Baltimore, Michigan, on 18 counts of cyberstalking and five counts of production of child pornography. The production of child pornography charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine for each count. The cyberstalking charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Cyberstalker ordered to stay away from actor Laurence Fishburne - 01/23/13
http://www.swrnn.com/2013/01/23/cyberst
A judge today denied actor Laurence Fishburne an extension of a stay-away order against a man who allegedly came to his home New Year’s Day and said he was there to evict him. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson told Fishburne’s lawyer, Donald Etra, that he had not shown enough evidence that Anthony Francis had caused significant emotional distress to the actor, or that the man was a threat to his client’s safety.
It's not just teenagers: adults are 'slut-shaming and sexting' too - 01/23/13
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/98
Last week, we read the tragic story of 13-year-old Chevonea Kendall-Bryan. The teenager accidentally fell to her death in Battersea in March 2011, while pleading with a boy to delete a mobile phone video of her performing a sex act. Such was her distress that she threatened to jump from her bedroom window, should the boy - stood on the pavement below - refuse. "How much more can I handle? HONESTLY. I beg you, delete that," she texted him.
Man Threatened with Knife, Cyberstalking and Assault - 01/22/13
http://newport.patch.com/articles/man-t
Chanthy Khun, 39, of 143 Third St., Newport, was arrested around 10 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, for felony assault with a dangerous weapon and an active bench warrant for failure to appear in court. Police responded to Rex Liquors for a report of a man sitting in the doorway refusing to move.
Australian surgeon sues Google over 'bankrupt' auto-complete - 01/22/13
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/techno
A Port Macquarie surgeon is suing Google for defamation over an auto-complete search suggestion that he believes has cost him clients. Google has been involved in several lawsuits around the world in the past year revolving around its autocomplete suggestions and has increasingly been held responsible for content on its search pages.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/01/2
Police in Sweden raided an apartment after receiving a report of gunfire and cries of help only to find several teenagers playing a computer game.
The teenagers were playing the game "Call of Duty Saturday" night when one of the boy's characters was killed after being shot several times and was left laying on the floor, screaming "help, help, help," Swedish news agency TT reported.
Passersby heard the game and thought it was real and called police.
A 10-person police unit was dispatched to the apartment and carried out a raid there, forcing the boys outside.
After the teenagers were out of the apartment, they were able to explain to the police that they were just playing a game.
Police left the apartment without taking anyone into custody or writing any citations.
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Visit WHOA on the web at http://www.haltabuse.org
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NEWS TO USE AND PASS ALONG!
(DISCLAIMER: The following news items were found on the web and were not written or endorsed by WHO@; they are for informational purposes only)
The dark web stole my life says the BBC's Ed Stourton: Hackers took hundreds of private emails - and set about ripping off all my friends - 01/28/13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
Last week, I picked up an evening paper and read that I was stuck in the Philippines without money after being attacked by ‘unknown gunmen’. As I was standing under a large London Underground sign on my way out to dinner with friends, I was reasonably confident the report wasn’t true. But I did have an uneasy sense of losing grip on reality. That morning had begun with an unsettling phone call from a cousin in Jersey. A retired Army officer, he informed me that I had been hacked. He had received an email from my address, which told the same sorry tale of armed robbery in Manila.
How I turned the tables on my trolls: Mary Beard suffered vile online abuse about her looks after appearing Question Time - 01/26/13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
Mary Beard OBE, Professor of Classics at Cambridge, is author of a dozen books, writer and presenter of BBC2’s BAFTA-nominated Pompeii and Meet The Romans, and a regular on Radio 4, Newsnight and Question Time. Today, she is sipping a cappuccino, peering at me through smeary specs and speaking very calmly, clearly (and loudly) about the myriad unspeakable, disgusting and abusive online comments she has received over the past week in what must surely be one of the most truly monstrous episodes of internet trolling ever.
US woman sues Match.com for $10m after man she met on the site tried to kill her with a butcher's knife and stomped on her head when she dumped him after eight days - 01/25/13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
A Nevada woman who was attacked by a man she met on Match.com is suing the dating website for failing to alert her of the dangers that come with an online match. Mary Kay Beckman, 50, met Wade Ridley on the site in 2010 but when she ended their courtship after eight days, Mr Ridley stabbed her with a butcher knife 10 times and stomped on her head.
Email lands man in jail - 01/25/13
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_
A man accused of harassing a woman with annoying emails and text messages is behind bars today after sending her an email telling her he was deploying to another country. The woman reported to police Wednesday that she has been receiving frequent and harassing messages from Taylor Brandon Patterson, 22, a former friend.
Respectable face of newlywed hacker whose cyber attacks paralysed PayPal - 01/24/13
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
Newly married and with a respectable job, he seems like an unlikely anarchist computer hacker. But within months of posing for pictures with his wife at their lavish wedding, Ashley Rhodes helped launch cyber-attacks on global financial institutions causing multi-million-pound losses. He was a member of the shadowy hacking group Anonymous, which ‘caused unprecedented harm’ to Visa, MasterCard and the online payment firm PayPal.
Indiana girl, 16, allegedly drives 60 miles in pickup truck to beat up another girl over Facebook insults - 01/24/13
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/24/in
Police in northwestern Indiana say a 16-year-old girl allegedly drove 60 miles to beat up another girl who spread rumors about her on Facebook. The alleged 17-year-old victim and her mother told police the other girl drove from Monticello to their LaPorte home in a pickup truck early Sunday morning. Police said the Monticello teen knocked the LaPorte girl down and kicked her when she went outside to meet her.
Paedophile, 25, had sex with girl, 12, as he hid in her bedroom for TWO DAYS while her unknowing parents sat downstairs - 01/24/13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
A paedophile who hid in a 12-year-old girl's bedroom and had sex with her for two days while her unknowing parents sat downstairs has been jailed. Leigh Arendse, 25, of Brunswick Park, Barnet, groomed the innocent youngster on an internet chat room before going from London to her Cambridgeshire home to meet her.
Banks spying on customers and monitoring their spending habits to sell targeted online advertising - 01/23/13
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/s
Banks are to pry on customers’ spending habits to bombard them with adverts and offers on their internet accounts. Money Mail has discovered a major High Street bank plans to start hitting customers with specially targeted adverts for offers and discounts each time they check their balance online.
Man hid camera for breast pumping - 01/23/13
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/0
Authorities in Oregon said a man was arrested for allegedly hiding a camera on a co-worker's desk to record her using a breast pump. Portland Police Sgt. Pete Simpson said Russell Gordon, 44, allegedly concealed the pen camera on his co-worker's desk at the MB&G consulting firm, where he has been employed as IT manager for more than 10 years, KGW-TV, Portland, reported Wednesday.
Tempted to vent about work online? You could get fired - 01/23/13
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Tempt
A single sentence posted on Facebook changed Amy McClenathan’s life forever. It was a very small sentence, but it was one of the most powerful sentences I’ve ever typed in my life,” she said. McClenathan says she was having a rough day near the one year anniversary of her mother’s death. She says she was not in the mood to be at work that day.
Michigan Man Indicted on Charges of Cyberstalking and Production of Child Pornography - 01/23/13
http://www.fbi.gov/buffalo/press-releas
U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted James S. Allen, 36, of New Baltimore, Michigan, on 18 counts of cyberstalking and five counts of production of child pornography. The production of child pornography charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine for each count. The cyberstalking charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Cyberstalker ordered to stay away from actor Laurence Fishburne - 01/23/13
http://www.swrnn.com/2013/01/23/cyberst
A judge today denied actor Laurence Fishburne an extension of a stay-away order against a man who allegedly came to his home New Year’s Day and said he was there to evict him. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson told Fishburne’s lawyer, Donald Etra, that he had not shown enough evidence that Anthony Francis had caused significant emotional distress to the actor, or that the man was a threat to his client’s safety.
It's not just teenagers: adults are 'slut-shaming and sexting' too - 01/23/13
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/98
Last week, we read the tragic story of 13-year-old Chevonea Kendall-Bryan. The teenager accidentally fell to her death in Battersea in March 2011, while pleading with a boy to delete a mobile phone video of her performing a sex act. Such was her distress that she threatened to jump from her bedroom window, should the boy - stood on the pavement below - refuse. "How much more can I handle? HONESTLY. I beg you, delete that," she texted him.
Man Threatened with Knife, Cyberstalking and Assault - 01/22/13
http://newport.patch.com/articles/man-t
Chanthy Khun, 39, of 143 Third St., Newport, was arrested around 10 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, for felony assault with a dangerous weapon and an active bench warrant for failure to appear in court. Police responded to Rex Liquors for a report of a man sitting in the doorway refusing to move.
Australian surgeon sues Google over 'bankrupt' auto-complete - 01/22/13
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/techno
A Port Macquarie surgeon is suing Google for defamation over an auto-complete search suggestion that he believes has cost him clients. Google has been involved in several lawsuits around the world in the past year revolving around its autocomplete suggestions and has increasingly been held responsible for content on its search pages.
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