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In other news...
Posted: 2002-10-07 10:39am
by Mr Bean
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!
Posted: 2002-10-07 11:17am
by Sienthal
Disturbing...
Posted: 2002-10-07 05:29pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
How do people get away with this without being noticed?
Posted: 2002-10-07 05:32pm
by Azeron
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.
Posted: 2002-10-07 05:39pm
by Tosho
Impressive, how did he do it and more importantly what his mistakes.
Posted: 2002-10-07 05:45pm
by Azeron
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.