Largest Hacking Scam in Canadian History

vieux schnock writes "Police raided several homes across Quebec on Wednesday and arrested 16 people in their investigation, which they say uncovered the largest hacking scam in Canadian history. (...) The hackers collaborated online to attack and take control of as many as one million computers around the world that were not equipped with anti-virus software or firewalls."

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O Canada...We loved you for what you were

[Anonymous Coward]

Sadly, Canada is becoming a haven for exporters of crime.

Title: Officials: Ecstasy is back, and it's laced with meth
Date: February 20, 2008
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/20/meth.ecstasy/

Law enforcement officials say European countries cracked down on ecstasy production in the early 2000s and manufacturing moved to Canada. And now, Asian gangs in Canada have been smuggling the chemicals needed to make ecstasy from China and India, officials with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police tell CNN.

Finished pills are then pushed in vast quantities into the United States, a flow that's difficult to stop because of the vast, largely unpoliced border, officials say.

Those on the front lines in Canada and the United States say they are working closely and sharing intelligence to try to stem the flow. Canadian officials also say they have a good relationship with Chinese law enforcement.

The Mounties have created teams across Canada focused on identifying the criminal organizations producing ecstasy and meth and say they have shut down 17 labs in the past year.

"The labs that we're finding now are what you refer to in the United States as super labs. We call them economic-based labs," says Raf Souccar, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Each lab produces more than 10 pounds of ecstasy in one batch, he says. "It's not your mom and pop operation. It tells me that it is criminal organizations that are, yes, more sophisticated and producing it for profit as opposed to producing it to fuel their habit."

It's then finding its way into schools, like Nick's in Albany, New York.

"I have been seeing an increase in pill use among the teens in general," says Greg Reid, a counselor at Equinox Community Services Agency, which sponsors drug counseling and other activities for youth in Albany.

"They do something called 'pharming' where they throw a bunch of pills into a bowl and kind of choose or take out the pills they want."

CBS News also did a report on Canadian criminals preying on elderly people:

Title:Tracking Down Scammers North Of The Border
Date: September 11, 2007
Url: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/11/cbsnews_investigates/main3251611.shtml?source=search_story

Smooth talking con artists operating from so-called "boiler rooms" in Canada are convincing elderly Americans over the phone to send them their life savings in a host of telemarketing scams.

CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian tells how those con artists find you in the first place and how millions of seniors end up on so-called "sucker lists."

What about some leads? I need some more leads. I'm looking for specialized leads." That request is in a phone call between a telemarketing con man and the supplier of so-called " -- information like home phone numbers, bank accounts and credit history that are craved by con artists.

Why is a credit card number so important? Sgt. Yves LeBlanc of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it shows they have access to money.

Sgt. LeBlanc is in the business of tracking down those who traffic in leads often pulled from phony prize or sweepstakes entries and used to gather the names of the gullible.

"What they don't realize is, as soon as they're putting their signature on that form and sending it back, they now go on a sucker list" says Leblanc. "Telemarketers refer to those lists as sucker lists."

The lists have revealing names like "Oldies But Goodies," for compulsive gamblers over 55 and "Suffering Seniors" for those with debilitating diseases.

The lists are pure gold in the hands of this Montreal con man, who asked we call him Zack.

"They're guaranteed hits" he says.

Keteyian: I'm look

Oh and about Celine Dion you jerkoffs

[FreakerSFX]

Britney Spears does not speak for all Americans. Michael Jackson assuredly does not represent all things american...(not criticizing his music though I am not a fan but he's about as deviant as they get)...

Amy Winehouse is not the speaker for all British people or representative of the British values....

Do you really want to compare who has the worst celebrities?

Oh - by the way - it's interesting to note where Celine Dion got most of her money...

From Wikipedia in regards to Celine Dion moving to Vegas from 2003-2007:

"According to Pollstar, Dion sold 322,000 tickets and grossed US$43.9 million in the first half of 2005, and by July 2005, she had sold out 315 out of 384 shows.[79] By the end of 2005, Dion grossed more than US$76 million, placing sixth on Billboard's Money Makers list for 2005.[80]"

Tell your parents to stop buying her CDs, DVDs and going to her shows and maybe, just maybe she'll go away.