Now 29-year-old faces years in the clink after long battle to bring him to justice
A 29-year-old Russian scumbag has admitted masterminding the Cardplanet underworld marketplace as well as a second forum for elite fraudsters.
Aleksei Burkov appeared in a US federal district court in Virginia this week to plead guilty [PDF] to access device fraud, and conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, identity theft, wire and access device fraud, and money laundering.
Cardplanet was an internet souk in which crooks bought and sold stolen bank card details. When he was cuffed and charged last November, prosecutors estimated the website accounted for roughly $20m in fraud.
Burkov also ran, we're told, an exclusive invite-only cybercrime den in which ..
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