'I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI'

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

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A fun read. :-)

Via Wired News.

[snip]

By the time David Thomas eased his Cadillac into the parking lot of an
office complex in Issaquah, Washington, he already suspected the police
were on to him.

An empty Crown Victoria in one of the parking spaces confirmed it. "That's
heat right there," he told his two passengers -- 29-year-old girlfriend
Bridget Trevino, and his crime partner Kim Marvin Taylor, a balding,
middle-aged master of fake identities he'd met on the internet.

It was November 2002, and Thomas, then a 44-year-old Texan, was in
Washington to collect more than $30,000 in merchandise that a Ukrainian
known as "Big Buyer" ordered from Outpost.com with stolen credit card
numbers. His job was to collect the goods from a mail drop, fence them on
eBay and wire the money to Russia, pocketing 40 percent of the take before
moving to another city to repeat the scam.

But things didn't go as planned.

[snip]

More:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72515-0.html

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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