Posted October 17, 2008
For two years the FBI had been working undercover targeting an online "carding" forum called Dark Market. This "carding" forum trades stolen credit cards and other personal information. Dark Market has 25oo resgistered members. "FBI has resulted in 56 arrests around the world and saved $70 milllion in losses." FBI director says investigations like this, leads them to other internet forums, where criminals go and interact.
"Of the 206,884 complaints about Internet-related crimes received by the Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2007, more than 90,000, reflecting almost $240 million in reported lossess, were referred to law enforcement agaencies across the United States."
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