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Microsoft Seeks to Identify Phishing Scam Authors By Brian Krebs washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Thursday, March 31, 2005; 3:51 PM Microsoft Corp. on Thursday escalated its efforts to crack down on Internet fraud, announcing that it filed more than a hundred lawsuits aimed at identifying people the company says targeted its e-mail and Internet service customers through "phishing" scams. Microsoft filed 117 civil lawsuits against unnamed individuals in federal district court in Seattle, hoping to learn the identities of those behind a rash of fraudulent e-mail messages identified over the past six months that specifically targeted customers of Microsoft's MSN Internet and Hotmail e-mail services, the company said.