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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. facebook this, facebook that by pinkishpunk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it was a plain and normal forum from what I read, or is suddenly anything facebook, even when you aint having your personal data analysed and sold ?

  2. Potential by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sounds like these fellows have potential, someone send them a MBA and put them in charge of a bank!

    1. Re:Potential by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Someone with potential knows that there are entirely legal and protected ways to completely fuck-over your fellow man. They go to school and learn how to not go to jail. Failing that, you might choose to become a politician.

      These were a couple of borderline-retarded kids that did the same BS that's been getting people busted for decades. There's nothing 'l33t' about scamming cards and then making a nice, centralized little website for fellow dumbshits to congregate and brag on.

      I, for one, celebrate this kind of ineptitude... as it results in the redirection of asshats to their new, rightful places of residence.

  3. Re:Arrested for What? by thehodapp · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The kid's an idiot for not encrypting his drive. If I were stealing thousands of credit cards and operating an extremely illegal website, I'd at least encrypt those files if not my whole dang hard drive.

    Oh and I can't imagine what a stray nerd on wireshark would think if they picked this guy's ftp packets with files of credit card numbers...sheesh....