Feds Charge Cybercriminals as 21st Century Racketeers

Dermot7 · Nov 20, 2013

LAS VEGAS – With his angular face and hooded eyes, Andrew Duncan is a federal prosecutor right out of Central Casting. But his message on the opening day of the trial of an alleged cybercriminal yesterday was anything but old fashioned.

“Television and the movies have always portrayed organized criminal enterprises in a certain way,” he says — mafia hoodlums plotting in a smoky backroom, “Vinnie the Bull” guarding the door.

Things have changed. “Flash forward to the 21st century,” he says, raising his voice and shouting out the domain name of a website, -www.Carder.su-. He pauses between each of the W’s so they ring like gunshots through the courtroom.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/open-market-trial-begins/

Dermot7 · Apr 11, 2014

A key member of a gang that trafficked stolen and fake credit cards faces a long spell in jail after pleading guilty to federal racketeering charges.
The defendant, Cameron Harrison of Georgia, US, was part of a large card fraud gang associated with the Carder.su website, believed to be responsible for around $50 million (£30 million) in losses around the globe.
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$50 million Carder.su thief pleads guilty | Naked Security

Dermot7 · May 16, 2014

Federal prosecutors have secured an unusually stiff sentence against a low-level identity thief by invoking the same law used to target bosses of the Gambino crime family and Los Angeles street gangs.

On Thursday, David Ray Camez, 22, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison and pay $20 million in restitution for his participation in carder.su, a website that allowed people to collaborate on crimes involving identity theft, computer malware, and other types of online graft. He was already serving a seven-year sentence for the same acts when he and 38 others were charged in a 2012 indictment. The indictment alleged violations of the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which allows for harsh criminal and civil penalties for acts that are part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.
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http://arstechnica.com/security/201...re-stiff-sentence-against-two-bit-cyberthief/

Dogfather · May 16, 2014

Obviously he was into organised crime (sarcasm intended).

Behind the scenes, the Secret Service was serving hundreds of search warrants, grand jury subpoenas and so-called 2703(d) orders that compel the disclosure of a suspects’ webmail and chat accounts from the likes of Hotmail, Live.com, Gmail, Yahoo, and AOL’s ICQ service, as well as ISPs and hosting companies.

Because organised gangsters take no security precautions. Yet another example of the US using a law designed for one thing for something totally unrelated.

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