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Teen charged in cyber stock scam
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-10-09

Federal officials filed securities fraud and computer crime complaints Thursday against a Pennsylvania teenager who allegedly used a Trojan horse and someone else's online brokerage account to sell thousands of worthless stock options to an unwilling buyer.

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Teen charged in cyber stock scam 2003-10-09
Anonymous (1 replies)
My first question is: a 19 year-old with $90,000 in options? I'm in the wrong business.

Hopefully the feds are investigating how he came across the money in the first place.

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