Police arrest 28 in online ID theft scam

**Glaswegian** · 08-19-2007, 12:57 PM

Law enforcement authorities have arrested 28 individuals accused of operating public Web sites designed to help people steal, sell and forge credit cards and identification documents.

"Operation Firewall" targeted 21 suspects in the United States and seven individuals in six nations who allegedly are responsible for running Web sites that investigators said served as online bazaars for hackers and identity thieves.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Oct28.html

JohnthePilot · 08-19-2007, 01:44 PM

I bet there's a lot more than 28 of them out there.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

chankya · 12-31-2007, 08:20 PM

I dom think that there are a lot of people who are in this and 28 is a small number of people who are get arresed and even they are not going to have any hard punishment as it is difficult to prove the Cyber Crime and the laws for are not that hard.

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**Cellus** · 01-01-2008, 04:55 AM

Committing theft and fraud can come with some serious time in the slammer (the methods of how theft and fraud are committed do not necessarily do much to mitigate sentencing if the circumstances show it to be of a more significant nature), and authorities - especially those who make arrests like these public - tend to want to be on solid ground and have good hard evidence before moving forward, or else it would very well bite them in the rear. Authorities don't like to waste the time and money spent in due process for public arrests, especially when they don't want the public to think of the justice system failing in that instance.

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chankya Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1 OS: XP Professional edition	Re: Police arrest 28 in online ID theft scam I dom think that there are a lot of people who are in this and 28 is a small number of people who are get arresed and even they are not going to have any hard punishment as it is difficult to prove the Cyber Crime and the laws for are not that hard. ____________ My Blog *spam removed - read the forum rules* Last edited by koala : 01-01-2008 at 01:10 AM. Reason: spam

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Cellus Moderator Networking Team Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,633 OS: Windows Vista Business SP1, Windows XP Professional SP3 My System	Re: Police arrest 28 in online ID theft scam Committing theft and fraud can come with some serious time in the slammer (the methods of how theft and fraud are committed do not necessarily do much to mitigate sentencing if the circumstances show it to be of a more significant nature), and authorities - especially those who make arrests like these public - tend to want to be on solid ground and have good hard evidence before moving forward, or else it would very well bite them in the rear. Authorities don't like to waste the time and money spent in due process for public arrests, especially when they don't want the public to think of the justice system failing in that instance. __________________ TSF Networking Team HijackThis 5 Step Process Donate! Last edited by Cellus : 01-01-2008 at 04:56 AM.