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British Teen Credit Card Scammer Goes to Jail
Published on 4 Mar, 2011 at 10:11 in Cloud | Viewed 98 times | No Comments
A teenager and his friends, who stole $25 million from 130,000 hacked credit cards around the world, have been sentenced to prison for organizing “the largest English-language online cyber crime forum.”
Toronto Star reported that 19-year-old Nicholas Webber, the creator of Gh0stMarket.net, was sentenced to five years in prison.
Co-conspirator and software designer Gary Kelly, 21, was also ordered to spend five years in prison. Sensing his impending…
Holy Matrimony: Husband and Wife Net $1.5 Million in eBay Scam
Published on 24 Feb, 2011 at 10:24 in Cloud | Viewed 184 times | No Comments
A scamming husband-and-wife team from Nevada has been found guilty of defrauding eBay customers who shelled out small fortunes for advertised high-end kitchen appliances they never received.
Darin Jerome French and Jennifer Lynn French were convicted last week of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering in connection with an online scheme in which the victims paid for what they thought was exclusive kitchenware, Daniel G. Bogden,…
Romanian Conman Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Online Bidders
Published on 18 Feb, 2011 at 11:38 in Cloud | Viewed 60 times | No Comments
A Romanian man has pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud and conspiracy for his role in moving and hiding the illegal proceeds of an international fraud that targeted Internet bidders.
Court documents say 33-year-old Adrian Ghighina of Bucharest, Romania, came to the United States in 2004 acting as a money mule in an online fraud conspiracy. Ghighina’s co-conspirators created fake online auctions for expensive…
Howard Schmidt: US to Have ‘Tough’ Talks on Cybersecurity
Published on 26 Jan, 2011 at 13:15 in Cyber | Viewed 113 times | 3 Comments
The United States plans to launch a diplomatic push to get more countries joining in cyber-crime investigations, the White House cybersecurity coordinator said yesterday.
“In the very near future, we will be coming forth with specific efforts” that may include “tough discussions” with countries to ensure they help hunt down cyber criminals, Bloomberg reported Howard…
Owner of Illegal Internet Pharmacy Pleads Guilty in California
Published on 10 Nov, 2010 at 10:59 in Cloud | Viewed 355 times | No Comments
The owner of an illegal Internet pharmacy has pleaded guilty to distributing controlled substances outside the scope of professional medical practice.
Robert Smoley, the owner of United Mail Pharmacy Services, admitted he and others distributed $48 million worth of controlled pharmaceutical substances. Smoley said these distributions were done without a legitimate medical purpose. Smoley pleaded guilty to …
Cyber Crime on the Rise in Spain
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 12:10 in Cloud | Viewed 100 times | No Comments
Authorities in Malaga, Spain, have reported that child pornography and fraud account for more than half of cyber crime, Euro Weekly reports.
Since its creation more than 18 months ago, the Computer Crime Service of Malaga Public Prosecutor’s Office has investigated almost 500 crimes. More than half of cases were related to fraud and the possession or distribution of child pornography. The remaining cases involved mainly slander,…
Carder Gets 6-Year Prison Sentence for Online Money Laundering Scheme
Published on 17 Sep, 2010 at 11:10 in Cloud | Viewed 242 times | No Comments
A California man who served as the head honcho for transmitting stolen money to hackers and carders in East Europe and globally was sentenced yesterday to 72 months in prison for conspiring to launder money.
Cesar Carranza, aka “uBuyWeRush,” participated in the money laundering conspiracy from Long Beach, between April 2004 to November 2006, and received cash deposits from carders. Carranza used various ways to launder proceeds of the illegal…
Facebook Used to Find Money Mules
Published on 1 Jun, 2010 at 14:45 in Cloud | Viewed 630 times | 3 Comments
Phishers are looking into different ways of reaching new recruits of cyber criminals by casting their nets onto social networking sites, creating special Facebook groups for their work-at-home scams, according to Kaspersky Lab.
Far from a novel idea, phishers have been using social networks for years to find new recruits. Now, the scammers have created Facebook groups specifically…
Hacker Gets 37 Months in Jail for Hacking Brokerage Accounts
Published on 9 Apr, 2010 at 12:16 in Cloud | Viewed 672 times | No Comments
A hacker who broke into brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab, laundered more than $246,000, and sold stolen credit-card numbers has been sentenced by the Manhattan Federal Court to 37 months in prison.
From approximately September 2006 through December 2007, Aleksey Volynskiy and…
Security Agencies Seek to Read Criminals’ Poker Face
Published on 5 Feb, 2010 at 15:07 in Cloud | Viewed 442 times | No Comments
Money laundering is an art used by arms dealers, drug dealers and other criminals. It takes “dirty money” (obtained through illegal means) and “cleans” it, making it appear to be legitimately earned. In the past, coin-operated businesses (like laundromats) were used. Now criminals have moved into cyberspace, using online gambling websites.
Security agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Serious Organized Crime Agency are investigating more than 20…
