Co-Founder of ShadowCrew ID Theft Web Site Sentenced

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

Via ABC News (AP).

[snip]

The co-founder of a Web site that investigators claimed was one of the
largest online centers for trafficking in stolen identity information
and credit cards was sentenced Thursday to two years and eight months
in prison.

The sentence for Andrew Mantovani was the longest of the five imposed
to date involving the site http://www.shadowcrew.com which had about
4,000 members who dealt with at least 1.5 million stolen credit card
numbers and caused more than $4 million in losses, federal prosecutors
said.

Mantovani, 24, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was also fined $5,000 by U.S.
District Judge William J. Martini.

Mantovani was among 21 people arrested around the nation in October
2004 after federal agents gained control of the site during a yearlong
undercover investigation by the Secret Service and other agencies. He
and 17 others have pleaded guilty. Several people were also arrested
overseas.

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More:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2136185

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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