Like most teens, Loulias is a video game nut, but he never imagined his favorite after-school pastime would set him on an early career in law enforcement.
“I had no idea,” Loulias said. Enter his uncle, who is an agent with the Utah Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The task force wanted to break into the world of online gaming but lacked the gaming know-how needed to start hunting down online predators.
Loulias said his uncle recruited him to teach agents how to play and sound like teenagers online.
According to federal law enforcement agencies, sexual predators seeking children are leaving the chat rooms and turning to online gaming worlds, like World of Warcraft and Microsoft’s Xbox Live, to make contact with minors.

LONDON (Reuters) – Computer hackers will open a new front in the multi-billion pound “cyberwar” in 2007, targeting mobile phones, instant messaging and community Web sites such as MySpace, security experts predict.

As people grow wise to email scams, criminal gangs will find new ways to commit online fraud, sell fake goods or steal corporate secrets.

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When people read out a phone number, they use “phone rhythm.” No one has to explain “phone rhythm,” we all just seem to do it automatically, “…713…555…12…34″. Similarly, when we answer a phone call we all say, “Hello.” No one taught us to do that, but somehow we all seemed to pick it up.

Organized gangs have adopted “KGB-style” tactics to hire high-flying computer students to commit Internet crime, a report said on Friday.