Sex.com scammer arrested in Mexico

Los Angeles - A man who stole the hugely lucrative sex.com website and was ordered to pay 65 million dollars in compensation has been arrested in Mexico and handed over to U.S. authorities. Stephen Michael Cohen was arrested in a mansion in the Mexican border city of Tijuana Thursday and is being held in a San Diego jail, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. The case goes back to 1994 when San Francisco engineer Gary Kremen registered the Internet name sex.com in the early days of the world wide web. A year later, as the potential of the Internet was becoming apparent, Cohen forged a letter to domain-name registrar Network Solutions, ostensibly from Kremen's company, saying that Kremen had been fired and that Cohen should get control of sex.com. Network Solutions handed the name over. Cohen made tens of millions of dollars from advertising on the web site. But Kremen sued, winning back control of sex.com back in 2000, and a 65 million dollar compensation award. © dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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