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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."

2 of 196 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How much more... by Gizzmonic · · Score: 1, Troll

    All crimes or suspected crimes deserve thorough investigation. Ruling certain kinds of crimes out-of-reach of the FBI simply due to resource-constraints is equivalent to encouraging the said crimes.

    That must mean the FBI encourages drug trafficking and sex crimes because they are not investigating those while they are going undercover to bust a group of peaceful protestors who have committed zero crimes Great logic you have there.

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  2. Re:Try Again by twitter_sockpuppet · · Score: 0, Troll

    And I am a sock around a hand.