If you have a little applet that is supposed to check your google email for you, how can it do so if you don't provide it with your email address and password?
The same goes for those applets that check Yahoo email, AOL mail, hotmal, etc of course.
Those 121 people aren't really connected to criminals, but merely acted as what in sweden is called 'goalkeepers'.
The russian people contacted swedes by icq or other chats and let them know that they had a business in sweden, needed to transfer money out of the country, but that "it was easier to do it with private accounts".
The russians would then transfer money from the hacked victim's account into this swedish 'goalkeeper', who in turn transfered them on to other countries in eastern europe.
They only got to keep a small percentage of the money flowing through, so the majority of the money reached these russian people (whom I imagine are far fewer than 121.)
Of course, many of these 121 'goal-keepers' realized that they were doing something criminal, and will be prosecuted. Those who didn't probably will, as well. (It is ok to be a little stupid, but not a lot)
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If you have a little applet that is supposed to check your google email for you, how can it do so if you don't provide it with your email address and password? The same goes for those applets that check Yahoo email, AOL mail, hotmal, etc of course.
Those 121 people aren't really connected to criminals, but merely acted as what in sweden is called 'goalkeepers'. The russian people contacted swedes by icq or other chats and let them know that they had a business in sweden, needed to transfer money out of the country, but that "it was easier to do it with private accounts". The russians would then transfer money from the hacked victim's account into this swedish 'goalkeeper', who in turn transfered them on to other countries in eastern europe. They only got to keep a small percentage of the money flowing through, so the majority of the money reached these russian people (whom I imagine are far fewer than 121.) Of course, many of these 121 'goal-keepers' realized that they were doing something criminal, and will be prosecuted. Those who didn't probably will, as well. (It is ok to be a little stupid, but not a lot)