FBI SNARES THREE MORE IN CREDIT CARD SALES RING:
Nov 13, 2006
FBI SNARES THREE MORE IN CREDIT CARD SALES RING: The FBI investigation
of an international ring that bought and sold credit card numbers has
expanded in Eastern Europe following the arrest of three Romanians
students who stole 200,000 euros (US$256,897) through credit cards.
TheFBI recently announced the arrest of four suspects in the United States
and 13 in Poland as part of Operation Cardkeeper, Stephen Kodak, FBI's
supervisory special agent, told CardLine. The initial arrest appears to
have occurred in San Diego in June when the FBI picked up an American
known only as "John Dillinger," his online nickname. Kodak says the
Bureau has worked since August 2004 with Polish investigators to
identify suspects who buy and sell credit card numbers through such Web
sites as CcpowerForums, and Darkmarket. The FBI identified the leader of
the gang as Mateusz Rymski, known as Blindroot. The FBI says he hacked
into third-party Web servers and rented access to those servers to
criminals who used them to host phishing pages that collected personal
data from unsuspecting consumers. The three arrested Americans are Dana
Carlotta Warren of Atlanta, and Zanadu Lyons and Frederick Hale, both of
Columbus, Ohio.
Eastern European news outlets reported that the Romanian
students were being held by that country's Organized Crime Fighting
Department with the help of the FBI. In other ID theft news, Illinois
police this month charged 10 owners, managers and employees of seven
hotels in Joliet, Ill., with selling credit card numbers of guests.
The arrests were part of Operation Sleep Over that began four months ago and
led to the arrest of a man in the racket, who then became an informant
for the Will County Sheriff's Department.
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