Internet crime shifts to Russia

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

Apparently the mainstream press, and the U.S. Secret Service,
has discovered something some of us have known for a while...
or perhaps more likely, they are just now iterating the fact
to the credit card companies.

Since came out of the same conference where:

"Visa CEO calls for data protection laws, incentives"
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/05/HNvisaceo_1.html

...I would expect more hot air on this, and related, topics.

A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

[snip]

Trafficking in stolen credit cards has largely shifted to Russian-language Web sites after an international crackdown 
sparked disarray among English-speaking scam artists, a U.S. Secret Service official said on Wednesday.

The October 2004 raid, dubbed Operation Firewall, led to 28 arrests in seven countries and shut down several Web sites 
that served as online bazaars where scam artists could buy and sell credit-card numbers, drivers' licenses and other 
documents.

Now much of the activity has shifted to Russian-language Web sites that are wary of outsiders, posing additional 
challenges to online investigators who must cope with language and legal barriers, said Brian Nagel, the Secret 
Service's director of investigations.

"The English-speaking side of this criminal activity seems to be in complete disarray," Nagel said at a credit-card 
security conference.

[snip]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051005/wr_nm/cybercrime_dc

- ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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