Category: Possible Episode
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Trio Sentenced For Dark Web Drugs – eCrimeBytes Nibble #55
The ages of this criminal group made me pause. Jonathan E. Williams was 39, but Joyce Oldrich was 70 years old and Linus Lee was 51 years old. All three were old…
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Los Angeles SIM Swapper Pleads Guilty – eCrimeBytes Nibble #54
Amir Hossein Golshan, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, one count of wire fraud, and one count of accessing a computer to…
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Stingray Catches Tax Fraudster – eCrimeBytes Nibble #53
Daniel Rigmaiden was caught and sentenced for filing large numbers of fraudulent tax returns, but it was how he did it and how he was caught that makes this story interesting. Looking…
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Last Man From Gozi Banking Malware Group Sentenced To Three Years – eCrimeBytes Nibble #51
The last individual charged was sentenced for the Gozi banking malware. Mihai Ionut Paunescu, a/k/a “Virus,” a dual Romanian and Latvian national was sentenced to three years. The Justice department’s press release…
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Three Russians Charged And Arrested For Conspiring To Commit Lockbit Ransomware Attacks – eCrimeBytes Nibble #50
Ransomware causes a lot of damage, but rarely are those associated with it caught. Well, in this case three Russians were charged and one was arrested! Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov was arrested and…
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Fired Man Allegedly Poisons Company’s Data On The Way Out – eCrimeBytes Nibble #49
Most people, if fired, would be immediately out looking for their next job. Vamsikrishna Naganathanahalli is accused of poisoning his former company’s data after he was fired. The government claims that after…
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Man Sentenced For ID Theft And Wire Fraud Using Verizon Wireless – eCrimeBytes Nibble #48
Felix Pena was sentenced to 60 months (5 years) after a plea to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He is also ordered to pay $404,069 in restitution. What…
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The DraftKings Hack – eCrimeBytes Nibble #46
Joseph Garrison’s gamble that he could get away with hacking DraftKings did not pay off. Garrison’s story is told best from the official DoJ complaint: In or about November 2022, in the…
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Rapper’s Cannabis Company Was Actually A Ponzi Scheme – eCrimeBytes Nibble #44
This might be another traditional Ponzi scheme when it comes to investors paying back investors, but not when it comes to the rapper name “BigRigBaby”! The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in…