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Max Ray Vision (formerly Max Ray Butler, alias Iceman) is a former computer security consultant [ 1] and hacker who served a 13-year prison sentence, the longest sentence ever given at the time for hacking charges in the United States. [ 2] He was convicted of two counts of wire fraud, including stealing nearly 2 million credit card numbers and ...
Roman Seleznev. Roman Valerevich Seleznev[ a] (or Seleznyov, [ 2] Russian: Роман Валерьевич Селезнёв; born July 23, 1984), also known by his hacker name Track2, is a Russian computer hacker. Seleznev was indicted in the United States in 2011, and was convicted of hacking into servers to steal credit-card data.
Albert Gonzalez. Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker, computer criminal and police informer, [1] who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007, the biggest such fraud in history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL ...
Carding (fraud) Carding refers not only to payment card based fraud, but also to a range of related activities and services. Carding is a term of the trafficking and unauthorized use of credit cards. [ 1] The stolen credit cards or credit card numbers are then used to buy prepaid gift cards to cover up the tracks. [ 2]
Credit card fraud happens all the time. Unfortunately, Americans know this all too well, as the nation is the most credit fraud susceptible country in the world. According to Nilson Report, credit ...
That same year, Trudeau faced federal charges of credit card fraud after he stole the names and Social Security numbers [1] of eleven customers of a mega memory product and charged $122,735.68 on their credit cards. [73] He spent two years in federal prison because of this conviction. [56] Later, in an interview, he explained his crimes as:
The report will bring no joy to residents of Florida, which ranked first among the states in credit card fraud with 170.8 reports per 100,000 residents. The Sunshine State also landed three cities ...
The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 ( Pub. L. 98–473, S. 1762, 98 Stat. 1976, enacted October 12, 1984) was the first comprehensive revision of the U.S. criminal code since the early 1900s. It was sponsored by Strom Thurmond (R-SC) in the Senate and by Hamilton Fish IV (R-NY) in the House, and was eventually incorporated into an ...