Romanian Immigrant Indicted for Phishing in Minneapolis

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

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Via The StarTribune.com.

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A Romanian immigrant has been indicted in federal court in Minneapolis on
charges that he operated a computerized "phishing" scheme for several years
that raked in financial records and personal identification from thousands
of individuals, including many from Minnesota.

Sergiu Daniel Popa, 20, of Shelby Township, Michigan, was indicted Tuesday
on three counts of possessing 15 or more devices designed to access data on
the Internet without authorization, and three counts of aggravated identity
theft.

Popa had email addresses for more than 10,000 individuals, and
investigators found evidence that he planned to solicit them to visit
fraudulent web sites, where they might be tricked into leaving personal
information, according to a sworn statement by Theodore Theisen, a special
agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigations who works on the Minnesota
Cybercrimes Task Force in Minneapolis.

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More:
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1257706.html

- - ferg

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