Carder.su is a crime forum and

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specialising in the sale of credit card details and

identity theft Identity theft occurs when someone uses another person's personal identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes. The term ''identity theft'' was c ...

. Since 2007,

Operation Open Market Carding is a term describing the trafficking and unauthorized use of credit cards. The stolen credit cards or credit card numbers are then used to buy prepaid gift cards to cover up the tracks. Activities also encompass exploitation of personal ...

, an operation run by the

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and the

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has targeted the site, believed to be based in

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in the US. In 2011, an alleged major vendor of credit card dumps and prominent Carder.su member,

Roman Seleznev Roman Valerevich Seleznev (or Seleznyov, russian: Роман Валерьевич Селезнёв; born 1984), also known by his hacker name Track2, is a Russian computer hacker. Seleznev was indicted in the United States in 2011, and was convic ...

, was apprehended in the

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by US law enforcement. In 2012, identity thief David Ray Camez was arrested and charged with everyone else in an unprecedented use of the RICO legislation. In early 2012, American cash-out master and top level carder Cameron "Kilobit" Harrison and 38 other people were indicted under the R.I.C.O. statute and arrested for buying and selling hacked and or otherwise compromised card details via Carder.su. In November 2014, Kilobit (Cameron Harrison) was sentenced to 115 months in Federal Prison and ordered to pay $50.8 million in restitution after rejecting and refusing any plea deals that were offered by the government. His release date is set as 02/19/2021. In January 2015 a

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man Jordan Georgievski was arrested in relation to the site. In March 2015 the

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has issued a reward for information leading to the arrest of mid-level leader Konstantin Lopatin, aka "Graf" and leader Roman Olegovich Zolotarev.

References

External links

* https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-nv/legacy/2013/05/23/Open%20market%20indictment%2012-cr-00084.pdf * https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-nv/legacy/2013/05/23/open%20market%2013-cr-00120%20indictment.pdf * https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-nv/legacy/2013/05/23/12-04%20indictment.pdf * https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-nv/legacy/2013/05/23/omar%20butt%2012-83%20indictmentpdf.pdf Internet forums Crime forums Carding (fraud) {{internet-forum-stub