London's Metropolitan Police is setting up two key teams to target e-crime and ticket fraud related to the 2012 Olympic Games, one focused on hacking and the other on ticketing fraud.

"Recruitment is underway for the Olympics e-crime team, which will be headed by detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie," writes ZDNet UK's Tom Espiner. "The team is already investigating websites that are suspected of being set up to launch phishing attacks."

"The Met's 24-strong ticketing-fraud team is headed by detective chief inspector Nick Downing, who pointed out that tickets for the events have not yet gone on sale," Espiner notes. "'Any website that sets itself up advertising tickets for the Olympics at the moment is doing so illegally,' Downing said."

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