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Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-07 10:39am

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27449.html

A 32 year-old former trainee dishwasher (how can you be a trainee dishwasher?) has pleaded guilty to masterminding what investigators believe is the largest identity theft scam ever attempted

At the time of his arrest in March last year, Abdallah had 800 fraudulent credit cards and 20,000 blank credit cards.

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Discuss!

Sienthal · Post by **Sienthal** » 2002-10-07 11:17am

Disturbing...

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-10-07 05:29pm

How do people get away with this without being noticed?

Azeron · Post by **Azeron** » 2002-10-07 05:32pm

Its actually relatively easy. Major CEO's personal info is public info. Some guy used some info from M$'s financial statemtns filed with the SEC (Availiable on the web) to steal a few million.

Tosho · Post by **Tosho** » 2002-10-07 05:39pm

Impressive, how did he do it and more importantly what his mistakes.

Azeron · Post by **Azeron** » 2002-10-07 05:45pm

Used the info to apply for credit applications, and depodited it into offshore bank accounts. He was a janitor amazingly enough.

He was just unlucky, the 1 of the transfers shopwed up in a random smapling in an audit. They just took it from there.