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An FBI Agent's 3 Years Undercover With Identity Thieves

Posted by timothy on from the doing-my-best-nelson-laugh dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld offers the inside story of how FBI Supervisory Special Agent J. Keith Mularski, aka Master Splynter, penetrated and took over DarkMarket.ws, the infamous underground carding board hacked by Max Butler and later transformed by Mularski into an FBI sting operation. The three-year tour sent Mularski deeper into the world of online computer fraud than any FBI agent before, resulting in 59 arrests and preventing an estimated $70 million in bank fraud before the FBI pulled the plug on the operation in October."

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  1. I like the way the government thinks by jollyreaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool hacker name = geek culture reference + creative misspellings/capitalizations

    Sample names:
    Dark JedEYE
    FeloniouS MonK
    POPP3R SMRF
    TERRORByTE
    G\/\/B

    I predict you will hear of these handles in future busts.

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    Kwisatz Haderach
    Sell the spice to CHOAM
    This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
    1. Re:I like the way the government thinks by Abreu · · Score: 5, Funny

      Those are also the initials for George W. Bush, a former president of the USA.

      Since we all are already trying very hard to forget him, I guess you get a pass

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      No sig for the moment.
    2. Re:I like the way the government thinks by Dark+JedEYE · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh fuck.

  2. Re:How much more... by beav007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    FBI does do some drug crimes I guess, but usually by accident. They're more into the "cool" crimes like Murder, Sex, and Cyber.

    This post is so much entertaining (and possibly accurate) when read without context...