Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/12/20/one_click_fraud_more_ms/
One Click Fraud: more MS scammers likely
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Posted in Business, 20th December 2002 19:04 GMT
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This week Seattle FBI told The Register that more arrests in the Daniel Feussner case were unlikely. Feussner was the Microsoft employee charged last week with selling $9 million of stolen software.
But Microsoft itself believes more cases will be unearthed as it investigates abuse of its internal purchasing system, The Seattle Post Intelligencer's Dan Richman reports today [1].
A number of investigations are underway, says a Microsoft spokesperson, and may result in dismissal and prosecution.
Amazingly, Richman reports that none of the individual items Feussner is alleged to have ordered had a value of more than $1,000, which triggers a form requiring a supervisor to click the "Approve" button - kind of like Amazon's One Click Shopping™.
Why the Feds aren't interested in pursuing more Feussners is puzzling. Perhaps it's another example of Microsoft policing itself [2]?
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