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Most Recent Posts The Register - Romanian national cops to $700,000 phishing tripPosted Oct-10-08 11:55:59 PDT See related article: eBay programmers and Developers are working on software to allow buyers to input their credit card information directly on the eBay site. So your credit card can be safe. Wonder if access to his User ID is for sale? // Romanian national cops to $700,000 phishing tripWho's your underworld Popa? Posted in Crime, 9th October 2008 18:47 GMT A 22-year-old Romanian national has admitted he participated in a US-based phishing operation that raked in some $700,000 over a three-year period. Sergiu Daniel Popa, who for the past seven years has lived in New York and Michigan, pleaded guilty in federal court in Minneapolis to two felonies related to the scheme. He faces a maximum of 10 years in federal prison and a fine of $500,000. Sentencing has not yet been scheduled. According to Popa's plea agreement, the scheme snagged the identities of 7,000 individuals who suffered a net loss of about $700,000. When his house was searched earlier this year, authorities found a machine for imprinting graphics on blank plastic cards, foil ribbons for making holographic images that appear on finished cards, blank cards, and partially created fraudulent drivers' licenses. Investigators also recovered "tens of thousands" of email addresses in his Yahoo email account that he kept for the purpose of sending phishing emails that tried to trick the recipient into divulging sensitive information, such as their bank account numbers. Like many online criminals, Popa was infused with a strong sense of impunity and hubris, court documents suggest. "Listen up," he wrote to one associate in a January 2005 email. "I am a accredited [sic] vendor in underworld. I have many scams, shop admins, and many full info credit cards. I can also pull up credit reports and cash out ATMs. I charge for my services but I am a great provider of everything." Popa also possessed pre-built websites spoofing the online destinations of multiple financial institutions, such as PayPal, SunTrust Bank, and CitiBank, according to an affidavit filed in the case. He offered to sell phishing kits with step-by-step instructions for $1,500 and software and hardware capable of counterfeiting credit cards. According to the affidavit, Popa was sentenced to 71 days in jail in Michigan in 2006 after being charged for using a hijacked eBay account to defraud someone into paying $1,448 for an item that didn't exist. FBI agents began their investigation of Popa in early 2005. He was charged in a sealed criminal complaint in February. ® // // From eBay Stores Forum . spopa2006 (2
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3 of 3 Now let me make things a bit clear for you. First and foremost, I think that the Feds are a bit mentally challenged to put me behind bars because I have access to a lot of databases and I can predict every single move one tries to make against me. And by the way, employing the described techniques by the newspaper article I successfully obtained about 1.1 Million dollars. I never run a Western Union Scheme as the newspaper says. I run an insurance scheme and therefore there shouldn't be any complaints. Insurances have plenty of money. They also fail to mention in the newspapers reports who I really am in terms of my education and my real story. If you would really know my background and my level of education, you would probably realize that I can listen to your phone conversation, or maybe take a refinance loan on your house without you knowing. I am really appalled by the fact that you guys are making such comments on my behalf. Who are you to judge me? You guys make me laugh. They also failed to say that I used to work as a mortgage broker and I regret the mistakes I made by scamming insurance companies but I was only 16 at the time I was doing it. I also offered to pay restitution to the Government. However, they always have to win, and they will never accept restitution because they want to prosecute me. I have also seen a newspaper article where I was described as speaking a broken English. Let's analyze that for a second. At 14 I was teaching Differential Equations and Mechanics at a 4 yr college in New Hampshire, and by the time I was 15 I graduated high school. I am not a wannabe. As a matter of fact, I think I read more books in my life than the whole FBI Minnesota office. If the newspapers are going to write an article about me, I ask them to tell the whole truth. Call my college professors and ask them who I really am. I know FBI, NASA, BOP and all those other government bonehead agencies are not happy when a kid who immigrated from another country penetrates their systems, but such is life. Get used to it. If in this life, we would all have an equal level of intelligence the world would come to an end. But how would you guys know that? I bet you guys never actually read a sociology, philosophy or psychology book and actually made something out of it. But here is a warning to everybody who will post bogus information about me: I will make your life a hell. Do not test me. Do not post information that is not accurate. I already have enough bad publicity and I do not want more. I want to be left alone. This also applies to the Feds. I have been a nice guy with you, but once again, you are not smart enough to catch me for one, and I would really hate to see you guys back to stone age. How much would the Feds loose if one of their databases were to be completely deleted? I am not an evil person, but I could be if I wanted to. Let's all live in peace and harmony. Mind your own business and I will mind my own. Very Truly Yours, . spopa2006 (2 ) Jun-26-07 23:56 PDT 5 of 5
// http://dev-forums.ebay.com/thread.jspa?threadID=500003393&tstart=30&mod=1181202063965 ihk{edited out} Hi! . spopa2006 Hey there. I wrote a similar project in C++ by using pointers. However,
the implemented network interface i used in C++ is no longer supported
and I am not a C# guru as I am in c++. Tell me whether or not you got
your solution. // Silicon Alley Insider - eBay Firing 1000 (Finally), Needs To Fire MorePosted Oct-06-08 10:42:51 PDT Updated Oct-06-08 10:56:10 PDT Original article: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/ebay-firing-1000-finally-needs-to-fire-more eBay Firing 1000 (Finally), Needs To Fire MoreeBay (EBAY) is finally acknowledging its new reality and cutting its global workforce by 10% On the positive side, eBay is now trading at an extraordinarily cheap 10X trailing free cash flow. This is a multiple assigned to companies whose growth prospects are minimal. In eBay's case, moreover, the company owns one rip-roaring healthy business--PayPal--and an unrelated VOIP phone business (Skype) that could also be sold for at least a couple of billion. So the implied valuation of eBay's core marketplace business is even lower. Will eBay turn itself around? No guarantees. But at this price, the market's answer is a resounding "no." (So if you believe otherwise, you have an opportunity.) See Also: eBay: Death By a Thousand Fee Cuts //CommentsEvent Horizon 1984 [ EventHorizon1984 ]Posted Dec-10-06 11:33:58 PST Updated Oct-01-08 21:04:44 PDT |
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