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Massive Online ID Fraud Ring Busted

Iphtashu Fitz writes "CNet News is reporting that the US Secret Service in conjunction with authorities in six foreign countries have arrested 28 people in the last 48 hours on charges of identity theft, computer fraud, credit card fraud and conspiracy. Dubbed Operation Firewall, the Secret Service identified a group of people who stole over 1.7 million credit card numbers as well as a passport-forging facility in Bulgaria. The investigation started in July 2003 when the Secret Service began investigating an unspecified financial crime. They identified the website Shadowcrew.com whose members traded tutorials and information about identity theft and forgery and exchanged sensitive personal and financial information. The Shadowcrew website has since undergone a makeover thanks to the Secret Service. A press release about the operation can also be found on their website."

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  1. Result from validator.w3.org on www.shadowcrew.com by lordsilence · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!

    Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.

    1.

    Line 1, column 0: no document type declaration; implying ""

    The checked page did not contain a document type ("DOCTYPE") declaration. The Validator has tried to validate with the HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD, but this is quite likely to be incorrect and will generate a large number of incorrect error messages. It is highly recommended that you insert the proper DOCTYPE declaration in your document -- instructions for doing this are given above -- and it is necessary to have this declaration before the page can be declared to be valid.

    2.

    Line 4, column 6: end tag for "HEAD" which is not finished

    Most likely, You nested tags and closed them in the wrong order. For example

    ...

    is not acceptable, as must be closed before

    . Acceptable nesting is:

    ...



    Another possibility is that you used an element (e.g. 'ul') which requires a child element (e.g. 'li') that you did not include. Hence the parent element is "not finished", not complete.

    3.

    Line 4, column 13: end tag for "HTML" which is not finished

    At least I would've thought they'd manage to get this done right!