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Teenagers Jailed For Criminal Version of Facebook

Posted by timothy on from the now-this-sounds-bright dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Three teenagers in the UK have been sentenced for up to five years in jail for creating and operating Gh0stMarket.net, one of the world's largest English-language internet crime forums. The Gh0stMarket website, which had about 8,000 members, was dubbed by the court as the 'criminal equivalent of Facebook,' or 'Crimebook.'"

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  1. Crimebook hehe by philmarcracken · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have thought the police would have allowed a 'crimebook' to continue if it lived up to the assumption of the name. I'm sure coppers already have their own crimebook and could use this as second life.

    Michael Rowland: 'Gonna rob the local servo on Mitchel ave. 12am today..'
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  2. Re:Crimebook? by SharpFang · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is an interesting question, but moot in this case because

    WTF does Moot have to do with this?

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  3. In other news... by gnalre · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft has taken a 2% stake valuing the site at 2 billion dollars....

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