Credit Card Hawker Extradited to U.S.
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 05/23/2016 10:26 AM
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Djevair Ametovski, 29, of Macedonia, who went online as "codeshop," "sindrom," and "sindromix," was extradited from Slovenia to the US.
The U.S. was in a battle for two years trying to extradite him and only proved successful with the help of authorities from Slovenia and the Netherlands.
Ametovski purchased the credit and debit information from underground hackers and then made it available to others. The underground hackers stole the info using phishing attacks.
Potential customers were able to create accounts, search the database using filters such as bank identification number, financial institution, country, state, and card brand. The database also contained personal info such as email address, billing address, phone number, and account holder name.
The criminals would then use the purchased info to carry out fraudulent online transactions or to create fake cards that they would use to steal money from ATMs.
Ametovski faces charges of aggravated identity theft, access device fraud conspiracy, and wire fraud conspiracy.
Source: SoftPedia
The U.S. was in a battle for two years trying to extradite him and only proved successful with the help of authorities from Slovenia and the Netherlands.
Ametovski purchased the credit and debit information from underground hackers and then made it available to others. The underground hackers stole the info using phishing attacks.
Potential customers were able to create accounts, search the database using filters such as bank identification number, financial institution, country, state, and card brand. The database also contained personal info such as email address, billing address, phone number, and account holder name.
The criminals would then use the purchased info to carry out fraudulent online transactions or to create fake cards that they would use to steal money from ATMs.
Ametovski faces charges of aggravated identity theft, access device fraud conspiracy, and wire fraud conspiracy.
Source: SoftPedia
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