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I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI

Posted by Zonk on from the well-not-me-the-guy-who-wrote-the-article dept.

Hoi Polloi writes "Wired News has a series starting on internet crime. The first piece they have up covers the story of a cybercrook who specialized in credit card fraud. Caught in a sting operation in November of 2002, the man who identified himself as 'El Mariachi' on message boards would lead a double life for the next two years working for the FBI. As he reported on credit card scammers, dodged his former associates, and stopped criminals from defrauding the 2004 presidential campaign, he also tried to keep his life together. A fascinating tale that looks at the face of modern crime, and crime-stopping techniques."

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  1. Presidential Campaigns still got defrauded :-) by billstewart · · Score: -1, Troll
    But hey, that was just Republicans, and voting machine companies, and the usual suspects.


    Those weren't the droids you were looking for, you can move along.

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    1. Re:Presidential Campaigns still got defrauded :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      And retarded liberals who are really sore losers. They were still bitching about election fraud in the 2006 elections until they won so many elections, then all was suddenly silent...

    2. Re:Presidential Campaigns still got defrauded :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      If a liberal had been voted in, wouldn't you have been upset as a retarded conservative if there was the appearance of fraud? Or would you have sucked it up and just accepted that you lost, even though you won?

      F'ing retarded conservative....go pull your head out of your ass

    3. Re:Presidential Campaigns still got defrauded :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      wouldn't you have been upset as a retarded conservative if there was the appearance of fraud?

      Nope, because I'm not a 'it's not my fault, everybody is out to get me, give me all your money' candy ass liberal. Excuses are like ass holes. Liberals spout 'em out and out of 'em.

  2. wrong focus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nice to know the FBI is protecting the interests of the credit card companies yet doing nada about all the radical Islamists crawling all over Seattle.