New York Indicts 17 on Trafficking, ID Thefts

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

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Via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (AP).

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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.

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.

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More:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700ap_internet_crime.html

- - ferg

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