New York Indicts 17 on Trafficking, ID Thefts - UPDATE
An AP newswire article, via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reports that:
A grand jury has indicted 17 people and a corporation on charges of identity theft, worldwide trafficking in stolen credit card numbers and other crimes committed using the Internet, prosecutors said Wednesday.More here.
The 173-count indictment, resulting from the second phase of a two-year investigation, says the defendants trafficked in more than 95,000 stolen credit card numbers and caused more than $4 million in credit card fraud.
The defendants ran Internet ads saying they had countless credit card numbers and other identifying information to sell to crooks, according to Manhattan Assistant District Attorney John Bandler. One of their Web sites was titled "The International Association for the Advancement of Criminal Activity."
Two of the defendants are a married couple, Vadim Vassilenko, 40, and Yelena Barysheva, 42, who pleaded guilty in September 2006 to falsifying business records and violating New York banking law by running an unlicensed check cashing and money transfer business.
UPDATE: 19:48 PDT: Additional info here. (Props, Dragos.) - ferg
posted by Fergie @ 11/08/2007 06:29:00 PM
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