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Thread: Google site: Orkut 'used by drug gang'

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    Ten people have been arrested in Brazil after authorities discovered them allegedly using Google's online community site, Orkut, to sell drugs. The drugs ring was uncovered after police tapped phone calls and monitored online communications through Orkut.

    The site, used for building online communities and making contacts, is hugely popular in Latin America. According to media reports, more than half of the seven million community members are from Brazil.

    "We discovered the drug ring first via authorised phone tapping, and later the investigation included monitoring of their activities on the internet," an officer at the Drugs Enforcement Service in Niteroi, near Rio de Janeiro, told the Reuters news agency.

    "We are aware of the situation and are currently looking into it," Google said in a statement.

    "When we are made aware of situations that are against our terms of service we take appropriate action."

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    The Brazilian authorities say that the drug dealers used the Orkut network service to link up deals to sell ecstasy and marijuana.

    The online community site was created by Turkish software engineer Orkut Buyukkokten.
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    google is still rocking

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    hmm, Orkut :ye;
    *The Web of the Pattern*

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    this is shocking [:O]
    Orkut is a great place for meeting people across boundries. I never knew it is being put to such use by these jerks.

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    well the threat is there .. in every form .. emails .. websites .. communities .. when we use something for good .. we cant say that it wont be used for bad .. n irony is .. this thing is unstoppable .. !
    aye dil tu tanhaiyon main rehne ka AaDi hoja.. jinhein tu yaad karta hai wo bare masroof rehte hain..

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    yo google keep it UP
    Best Regards
    Ali Baba

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    Quote Originally Posted by ~Aadi~ @ Fri Nov 11, 2005 3:19 am
    well the threat is there .. in every form .. emails .. websites .. communities .. when we use something for good .. we cant say that it wont be used for bad .. n irony is .. this thing is unstoppable .. !
    Agreed :ye;
    "The world and all the things in the world are precious but the most precious thing in the world is a Virtuous Woman."
    - Prophet Muhmmad, Sal Allahu 'Alayhi wa Sallam

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