British Gang Nets £500,000 in iTunes Royalties Scam

[JMcEntegart]

Several members of a cyber crime ring that scammed iTunes out of hundreds of thousands of pounds have been jailed.

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[shardey]

They received very light sentences for stealing credit cards and using them.

 

[Dacatak_08]

The question remains: Which database(s) was/were hacked to obtain those thousands of credit cards worth of information?

 

[brythespy]

British gangs, Wtf? Watchout! They gonna make you drink tea if you don't give them monay.

 

[LORD_ORION]

[citation][nom]brythespy[/nom]British gangs, Wtf? Watchout! They gonna make you drink tea if you don't give them monay.[/citation]

Riiight..... home of the real skin heads and real punk gangs.... walk down a back alley and keep thinking you are going to get the tea treatment....

 

[danhitchcock]

wow... Pretty sure in the good ol' USA, they would have been executed.

 

[AznCracker]

Odd, I imagined gangs as people who deals drugs or something.

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]shardey[/nom]They received very light sentences for stealing credit cards and using them.[/citation]

I would've preferred the case to be settled in a civil than a criminal court, if it occurred in the US.

Yes, they get away with a clean criminal record.

But they're going to get hit with a large class-action lawsuit that requires an expensive lawyer to handle. At the end, their entire scam operation would've ended in a $1+ million loss.

 

[xerroz]

Why aren't the Apple CEOs in jail for scamming people?

 

[shardey]

[citation][nom]xerroz[/nom]Why aren't the Apple CEOs in jail for scamming people?[/citation]

Why aren't you in jail for being an idiot?

 

[freggo]

Clearly not enough of a 'sentence'.

 

[buckcm]

That isn't very much money for 11 gang members taking almost 1.5 years.

 

[derekullo]

I don't know whether to feel bad about the peoples whose credit card got stolen. Or happy that some one stole from Apple. I guess every cloud has it's silver lining.

 

[alidan]

cops in america dont care unless the total stolen is over 150$
the got such a light sentence because it was presumably less than 50$ a creditcard, probably only 20.

 

[Guest]

Money laundering via MP3 sales...interesting.

 

[uruquiora]

what do i have to do to get one year jail now ffs ? kill someone ??
pff as if that is gonna punish them...

 

[onanonanon]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]I would've preferred the case to be settled in a civil than a criminal court, if it occurred in the US.Yes, they get away with a clean criminal record.But they're going to get hit with a large class-action lawsuit that requires an expensive lawyer to handle. At the end, their entire scam operation would've ended in a $1+ million loss.[/citation]
Which they wouldn't have been able to pay anyway so what would have been the point?

 

[eddieroolz]

For stealing that much money, they should be forced to work it all off at prison pay.

 

[gm0n3y]

That sentence is actually pretty reasonable. The organizers received a few years in prison for a non-violent crime. Cyber theft isn't exactly rape/murder/armed-robbery so you shouldn't be getting 10+ years for it. Hopefully a few years will help to rehabilitate these criminals and not just harden them.