Man Gets 8 1/2 Years for Running Phishing Scam

A Romanian immigrant has been sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison for running a lucrative computerized "phishing" scheme that collected financial records and personal identification from thousands of individuals, including nearly 100 from Minnesota. Sergiu D. Popa, 23, of Shelby Township, Mich., was sentenced in federal court in Minneapolis for a plot that cost his 7,000 or so victims about $700,000, by his own admission.