Florida Counterfeit Credit Card Ring Busted

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Brian Krebs:

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Six individuals in Florida have been indicted for running an organized
credit card counterfeiting ring that netted more than 200,000 stolen
account numbers, the U.S. Secret Service said today.

Julio Lopez, 30, and his girlfriend, Anett Villar, 26, were arrested in
February for trafficking in credit cards they allegedly fabricated using
legitimate account numbers purchased online from other criminals. (Both are
listed as living in Hialeah, Fla.)

Investigators said they traced communications between Lopez -- using the
online screen name "Blinky" -- and four Cuban men in Florida who
authorities alleged were sending large payments to cyber crooks in Eastern
Europe in exchange for tens of thousands of stolen credit card numbers.
Those numbers were then used to fabricate fake credit cards in several
production centers throughout Florida.

Neither indictment includes this information, but a press release from the
Secret Service said the men paid for the goods via E-Gold, an online
payment service that was raided by the FBI earlier this year.

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More:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/07/florida_counterfeit_cred
it_car.html

- - ferg

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