Analysis: Detroit Trial Shows Cyber-Scam

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

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Via UPI.

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The case of a Michigan woman charged with identity theft has lifted a small
corner of the veil over a huge series of credit-card scams, run from the
former Soviet bloc, that have cost consumers and the card industry hundreds
of millions of dollars.

The state attorney general's office told United Press International that
Krystal Owens would go on trial Monday on three counts of identity theft
and one of conspiring to commit identity theft.

But one independent investigator who has followed the case told UPI that
publicly available details of the crime match a series of "identical"
frauds that are netting conspirators more than $10 million a month.

The Michigan attorney general's office declined to comment further in
advance of the trial, but a statement announcing the charges named her
co-conspirator as Tomas Lasinkas, and identified his company and two Web
sites they allegedly used to run the scam, which involved making small
bogus charges to thousands of credit cards, whose numbers had been stolen.

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More:
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/02
/25/analysis_detroit_trial_shows_cyber-scam/3605/

- - ferg

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