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Carder Forced Gang Members to Have Sex to Weed Out Undercover Feds


From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 02:17:30 -0600 (CST)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/carder-sex-gang/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
January 31, 2012

The mastermind of a carding gang in Georgia devised a novel way for weeding out undercover Feds from his operation -- he forced members to have group sex, according to a local police detective who helped bust the ring.

Vikas Yadav, an Indian national who was deported in 2010, recruited other carders and mules through sadomasochism web sites, forcing would-be accomplices to have group sex with other men and women while Yadav videotaped them, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.

“Anyone who wanted in with [Yadav] would have to have three-way sex, either with other men or women, but Vikas had to be involved and he would record it all and save the recordings so he could watch it on his big flatscreen TV,” Athens-Clarke Police Detective Beverly Russell recently revealed to the paper.

Authorities say a TV in his upscale Athens, Georgia, bedroom was rigged to a pair of hard drives capable of holding 12 terabytes of data.

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