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Carderprofit.cc Was FBI Carding Sting, Nets 26 Arrests
tsu doh nimh writes in with news of a major sting operation against carders. From the article: "The U.S. Justice Department today unveiled the results of a two-year international cybercrime sting that culminated in the arrest of 26 people accused of trafficking in hundreds of thousands of stolen credit and debit card accounts. Among those arrested was an alleged core member of 'UGNazi,' a malicious hacking group that has claimed responsibility for a flood of recent attacks on Internet businesses."
The trick: the FBI ran a carding forum as a honeypot.
FBI created some criminals.
Sure they did. Those poor innocents, tricked into doing something they weren't already doing.
The carders they busted are low-life amateurs, not serious criminals. I'm sure the FBI and friends will milk this for all it's worth, but it's the equivalent of nicking a couple of shoplifters while at the same time, Mexican drug lords are burning down the entire city.
Come and wake me up when they bag some REAL criminals, like the big Russian gangsters robbing SMEs out of hundreds of millions per annum.
The real criminals are untouched -- and untouchable.
Real criminals? If they were actually using credit card information to make illegal purchases, they ARE real criminals! Just because you don't have to mug someone to get his wallet doesn't matter. At least when you are mugged (assuming you don't have to go to the hospital) you know your personal information has been stolen. When your personal information is stolen via the computer, you often don't learn about it until the big bills start to pile up. Also, a mugger usually steals only hundreds (maybe thousands) a credit card thief usually starts at that point and goes up from there. In terms of money lost, we went the FBI to go after them and the thieves running the big banks and Wall Street. Let the local police deal with the muggers.
This is much more of a real crime than "piracy." Good on them for getting some people actually causing harm.
The Silk Road thing set off my tin foil hat alarm. If I were a TLA, there's no way I'd openly admit that there was a way to be completely out of their reach.
$5 says Tor, or at least Silk Road is compromised, or maybe even a honeypot itself. If you were into the kind of thing they're in to, and a little short on the brain cell front, wouldn't you flock to the "Guaranteed safe by the FBI!" places?
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They illustrated that crimes can be solved by normal police work without spying on hundreds of millions of innocent people.