Romania
I have to deal with a lot of fraud artists and spammers in my job, lots. They come from all over but are heavily concentrated in Indonesia, Russia and most frequently Romania. Romania is a cesspool of criminal activity on the web. Until recently the police there took no action because no laws in Romania were being broken. Not, thanfully, anymore.
Authorities in the southern city of Pitesti have broken up four sophisticated Internet crime rings, police said Saturday.
A total of 62 suspects _ 23 of whom were arrested _ are accused of defrauding 120 foreigners of more than euro100,000 (US$128,000), after an extensive investigation which was assisted by the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service, the police statement said.
The amount of damage these phishers and other scam artists cause is immense and I would hope that 15 years in a black hoile would be the minimum they get. I can only hope that some of the information I’ve passed on to victims has helped put these bastards away.
