Tracking the Russian Scammers

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Wired News.

[snip]

Dmitry Ivanovich Golubov, a 22-year-old Ukrainian who went by the nickname
"Script," was considered one of the godfathers of Eastern European carding
rings. As one of the leaders of CarderPlanet, authorities say Golubov
facilitated the theft and international trading of millions of credit and
debit card numbers that resulted in multimillion-dollar losses to banks and
merchants over several years.

So when Ukrainian police finally nabbed Golubov in the summer of 2005 it
was a coup, representing the culmination of dogged investigative work by
U.S. Postal Inspector Greg Crabb and other law enforcement officials in the
United States.

"Golubov was such a high-profile target," Crabb told Wired News. "The
Secret Service, FBI and myself were working Golubov in different districts
over the United States trying to get some inroads into where he was coming
from."

But achieving the arrest wasn't easy. While U.S. authorities collared
numerous small-time crooks in the United States who used the stolen card
numbers that Golubov's ring distributed, efforts to nab Golubov himself
proved futile for three years, due to indifference from Ukrainian
authorities.

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More:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72605-0.html

- - ferg

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