An American who was part of a multi-million pound ID theft scam in the UK was jailed yesterday for six years. Douglas Havard, age 24, was sentenced on Monday at Leeds Crown Court after he plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to launder money. His partner, Lee Elwood, 25, of Glasgow, was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to the same offences in June 2004.
The court heard that the duo were an important part of a very large phishing scam that netted around £6.5M . The pair operated in the UK sector of an international phishing operation that tricked users into handing over confidential information, such as bank PIN numbers, to fake websites.
Havard also confessed to receiving large data dumps of compromised account details from criminal associates in Russia.
View: Phishing information in the Wikipedia
The court heard that the duo were an important part of a very large phishing scam that netted around £6.5M . The pair operated in the UK sector of an international phishing operation that tricked users into handing over confidential information, such as bank PIN numbers, to fake websites.
Havard also confessed to receiving large data dumps of compromised account details from criminal associates in Russia.
View: Phishing information in the Wikipedia
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I hate this justice system.
Not so sad for these two as they probably already spent the money or have it hidden somewhere. When they get out of prison they can go live like kings... if they can get out of the country that is.
6.5 million pounds... split that two ways, deduct a million or two for start-up capitol and other costs.. that still leaves anought to live comfortably for the rest of one's life. It'd be nice to see if the police could hunt down where all the money went. Let's hope they have a good forensic auditor.
and open the email again and than fill in the info they want with comments like
f**k off and get a life your scam hasnt worked this time.
what i find realy funny is they dont do a good job at makeing them look real.
some emails come with a url thats been pasted into an image so even before you put your mouse over the URL the emali client shows where the link would take you.
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