A computer-savvy thief won't be on the street for Apple
Inc.'s next big product launch. Shaheed
Bilal, 29, was sentenced to 4 1/2 to 9 years behind bars for running a
cybercrime ring that created counterfeit credit cards and used them in Apple
stores across the country, Reuters reports.
The ring, which also included Bilal's brothers and
girlfriend, purchased more than $1 million worth of iPads, iPhones and MacBooks
over 2 1/2 years starting in 2008 and sold them to dealers in stolen goods in
Brooklyn, N.Y. They purchased credit
card numbers online, probably from traffickers in Eastern Europe, according to
a joint investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney and the United States
Secret Service….
Read all about it at http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-leader-of-apple-scam-gets-up-to-9-years-20120621,0,6630215.story]
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