Hacker’s Arrest Offers Peek Into Crime in Russia

[IceFM]

This was yesterday in the "New York Times".....

MOSCOW — On the Internet, he was known as BadB, a disembodied criminal flitting from one server to another selling stolen credit card numbers despite being pursued by the United States Secret Service.
And in real life, he was nearly as untouchable — because he lived in Russia.

BadB’s real name is Vladislav A. Horohorin, according to a statement released last week by the United States Justice Department, and he was a resident of Moscow before his arrest by the police in France during a trip to that country earlier this month. .........


Full article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/busin ... ted&st=cse" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[IceFM]

Here is another Report about this Guy with a Cartoon from him. By the way: The Webpage carder.su is also off from the Net now.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/badb/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Marisa]

Law enforcement groups in Russia have been reluctant to pursue these talented authors of Internet fraud, for reasons, security experts say, of incompetence, corruption or national pride.

perfectly said, especially the last part, about "national pride". Russsians and Ukrainians have a very perverted understanding of what "national pride" is. Instead of cleaning the house, they are covering up the crime. Very hard to get any co-operation from them when you are a foreigner trying to get help with a local crook. Everybody would defend and protect the crook.

I remember how I posted a Ukrainian pro-dater here. She went to a Russian board and started complaining to Russian girls about it. During the heated discussion, more bad facts about her resurfaced, including her openly admitting she was a scammer and proud of it. Some girls suggested to post all her blurbs on our board. But... even though everybody realized she was a scammer and was disgusted, they said: "no, good or bad, she is one of us. We will never "sell" her to foreigners."

The same attitude is even among Russian authorities.