U.S. sentences first foreigner for phishing

A 23-year-old Romanian man has become the first foreigner to be sentenced to prison by a U.S. court for phishing. Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman, of Craiova, Romania, was sentenced to four years and two months in prison Monday for his role in an international phishing operation. Prosecutors had charged him with setting up fake banking sites and then sending out tens of thousands of fraudulent spam messages in hopes of tricking victims into giving up their account information.

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