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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. 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!