UK teenager arrested for carding

Red Dwarf · **Joined:** Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:01 am **Posts:** 9227

http://www.finextra.com/News/Fullstory. ... emid=22035

24 November, 2010 - 10:56
UK teenager behind cybercrimewave to face prison spell

Nick Webber, 19, and a few mates were behind GhostMarket.net - a carding forum with 8,000 members that sold stolen credit card numbers and passwords for a few dollars each. They also discussed how to defraud banks online.
Naughty Nick was nabbed with 100,000 credit card details on his computer.

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

Gar Warner also has excellent indepth coverage of this story:

http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2010/11/s ... on-12.html

SiL

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

Wow, and the guy just admits to everything online:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002009.html

You've got to wonder how people that stupid were allowed to continue stealing until they'd taken $18 million US dollars. They weren't being stealthy. The guy registered a ZeuS domain with his own credit card. If someone had bothered to intervene when he started, he could possibly be getting out of reform school for a juvenile offense with a clean slate right about now and a lot of people would still have their money in their bank accounts. It's like the police wanted to wait until he was 18 and they could try him as an adult.

Red Dwarf · **Joined:** Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:01 am **Posts:** 9227

CSL aka Joker certainly lacks quality control when accepting registrations from what turned out to be a criminal

>whois gh0stmarket.net

Code:

Domain Name: GH0STMARKET.NET
Registrar: CSL COMPUTER SERVICE LANGENBACH GMBH D/B/A JOKER.COM
..
owner: N2C
organization: GhostMarket
email: [email protected]
address: 1337 Street
city: Unknown
state: --
postal-code: 1337
country: GB
phone: +7.786661337

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

Gary Warner has more on this ring on his updated blog:

Ghostmarket Carders Sentenced in UK

Quote:

Back in November we ran a story Schoolboy Hackers steal $18 Million regarding the case against the operators of the online credit card trading forum known as Ghostmarket. Today's post is just a quick follow-up to share details of their sentences from New Scotland Yard. ...

Red Dwarf · **Joined:** Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:01 am **Posts:** 9227

Quote:

[A] Gary Paul Kelly, 21 (14.04.89) unemployed of Clively Avenue, Clifton, Swinton, Manchester -- sentenced to Five Years
[B] Nicholas Webber, 19 (10.10.91) a student of Cavendish Road, Southsea; -- sentenced to Five Years
[C] Ryan Thomas, 18 (8.7.92) a web designer of Howard Road, Seer Green, Beaconsfield, Herts; -- sentenced to Four Years
[D] Shakira Ricardo, 21 (14.11.89) unemployed of Flat 13, J Shed, Kings Road, Swansea SA1; -- sentenced to 18 Months.
A fifth defendant, Samantha Worley, pleaded guilty earlier and received a sentence of 200 hours community service.

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