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German Behind World Cup Computer Virus?

May 12, 2005
Now that the shout of thousands of soccer fans around the world have calmed after their "winning" World Cup tickets were revealed to be nothing but an e-mail virus, investigators believe the virus' creator might be German. Though technical details seem to show the e-mail as originating from Germany, it's the programmer's excellent language skills that many are basing their assumptions on. Who else, besides a native, could put together a cunning message in perfect German, experts wonder? The Germany 2006 World Cup Organizing Committee will have to hope investigators are able to come up with more substantial, preferable non-linguistic, evidence in order to catch the person who crashed their Web servers earlier this month. At least one person who received his share of the over 2.3 million messages estimated to have been created by the virus replied to Germany 2006 World Cup Organizing Committee. His message: "When are you going to get it? I don't want your tickets!"
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