FBI arrests dozens for 'phishing' ID theft scheme

meep · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:10 pm **Posts:** 2777

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LOS ANGELES — The FBI is making dozens of arrests in the U.S. and overseas to crack an identity theft ring that victimized thousands of people.

Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman in Los Angeles, says agents are making arrests Wednesday morning in Southern California, Nevada, North Carolina and overseas.

She says about 100 arrests are expected — many of them in the Los Angeles area
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[EDIT: SiL edited that link because it was previously doing weird redirections. Original url was:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13505303?nclick_check=1
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AlphaCentauri · **Joined:** Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:01 am **Posts:** 5915

This link may work better for people:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/techn ... phish.html

It sounds like an operation we're all very familiar with, that was sending spam for Bank of America and Wells Fargo. They enlisted people in financial difficulty as money mules, too.

meep · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:10 pm **Posts:** 2777

More details emerge as this story grows legs: 390 results in Google news this evening at 21:00 ET. This Wired article has links to the names, ages and location of the criminals and also the indictment.
:silthumb:

meep · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:10 pm **Posts:** 2777

Slashdot: FBI Cracks "Largest Phishing Case Ever"

spamislame · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 9:18 am **Posts:** 5022

good MORNING!

This made my day. Lots of reading to catch up on. Great work.

SiL

AlphaCentauri · **Joined:** Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:01 am **Posts:** 5915

Worth moving this one to launch this brand new empty forum

meep · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:10 pm **Posts:** 2777

Hopefully soon, there will be more threads here. :mrgreen:

Nodus · **Joined:** Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:05 pm **Posts:** 2261

And why not make this forum public even for guest users? I don't think it would harm anybody to see all these a**holes getting busted sooner or later. :twisted:

spamislame · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 9:18 am **Posts:** 5022

It's public to the search engines. If a user clicks on the link from google they'll be told to register. I like that idea.

Since this general area (cybercrime) is locked from unregistered users, this forum inherits the same permissions. If we want the whole area to be wide open I can do that. Let me know.

SiL

Nodus · **Joined:** Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:05 pm **Posts:** 2261

spamislame wrote:

It's public to the search engines. If a user clicks on the link from google they'll be told to register. I like that idea.

Ok, I think that's fine :silthumb:

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AlphaCentauri · **Joined:** Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:01 am **Posts:** 5915

Then they can read the page they specifically searched for on Google cache, right?

spamislame · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 9:18 am **Posts:** 5022

AlphaCentauri wrote:

Then they can read the page they specifically searched for on Google cache, right?

That part I believe: by default, yes they can. I don't know if there's a way of preventing that.

SiL

AlphaCentauri · **Joined:** Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:01 am **Posts:** 5915

Actually, I just looked at some Google results. The only forums being indexed are 1, 5, 9 and 12. (Fight Spammers, Spam in the News, Stupid...Spammers, and Unrelated to Spam).

meep · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:10 pm **Posts:** 2777

Just noticed this myself: even more details on this great development from GarWarner posted on 10/8/09:

The FBI's Biggest Domestic Phishing Bust Ever

spamislame · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 9:18 am **Posts:** 5022

Okay so: do we want to open up the entire cybercrime area to the public?

It is not hard.

SiL

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