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Romanian Pleads Guilty In US Phishing Case
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-07-23
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Eighteen months after being indicted by a federal court, one of a group of seven Romanian citizens pleaded guilty to involvement with phishing bank details from people.
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Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman admitted to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with access devices in US District Court in Connecticut, the US Attorney's Office for the state said.
Nicola-Roman and six other Romanians had been indicted in January 2007 for their roles in a phishing scheme that sought banking information from victims. The group compromised a computer in Minnesota and published a fake site for Connecticut-based People's Bank.
The group also took on numerous other financial targets. Those institutions included Citibank, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Comerica Bank, Wells Fargo & Co., eBay and PayPal.
One unnamed bank claimed losses of $150,000 from the phishing scheme. Nicola-Roman faces up to five years and a $250,000 fine for his role in the program.
Such news comes as major web-based email providers like Google and Yahoo make gains by supporting DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) to identify and weed out emails coming from domains other than the one they pretend to be. Broader adoption of DKIM may be what email needs these days.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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