@BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZThe FULL STORY of the US bust a
reported in the LOS ANGELES POS
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Plus the source of the bust is
finally acknowledged - it was
KIMBLE alias TOYABUG of GERMANY
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- The one and only truth on the bust -
The following newspaper article clears up a lot of
the rumours and bullshit that have been floating
around following the bust of many good elite dudes
from the States in the last couple of months.
One thing that is interesting to note about this
article is that it fails to mention the role
Kimble ( alias Bitbug or Toyabug from Germany )
had in the bust of these US based elites. Kimble
you might remember was the German captured by the
German police earlier this summer and charged with
stealing over 50 million deutchmarks worth of long
distance phone calls. He was advertising his
illegal services in magazines when busted.
Was everyone involved in the scene totally asleep
at the switch - there were about 40 text files
floating around telling of the Kimble bust, and
the Kimble sting, and the return of Kimble after
the bust. Why the hell did the Yank players not
take the hint and get the hell out when the shit
first hit the fan - can they not read or was greed
blinding them to what was logically going to
happen after their German dealer got busted.
So if anyone wants to know how the US dudes were
busted just look to Kimble back in Germany and you
will know how the whole thing got busted wide
open. Kimble bought his cards from two big name
folks who were busted first. They in turn were
forced to cooperate with the Secret Service.
Eventually it all traced back to Lay and the whole
trap was completed and closed.
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TITLE : $50 Million Dollar Phone Fraud
Cracked by Police
SUBTITLE : Employee of phone company behind
ring
NEWSPAPER : October 3 1994, Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES, California - In what is believed to
be the largest fraud of its kind, an MCI employee has
been charged with stealing more than 100,000 telephone
calling card numbers that were used to make more than
$50 million US of long distance calls, say federal
authorities.
MCI employee Ivy James Lay was alleged to be the
main supplier of stolen card numbers to an international
ring of thieves operating in Los Angeles and at least
five other US cities, Spain and Germany the US Secret
Service said the federal agency that investigates
interstate telephone fraud.
The Secret Service investigation ended in Southern
California last Thursday when agents seized numerous
items from the home of a co-conspirator, which included
six computers with pirated commercial copyrighted
software and thousands of calling card numbers stored on
computer disks.
Tens of thousands of customers of MCI, AT&T,
Sprint and several local telephone companies were
victimized by the scam, the Secret Service said. But
those consumers - many still unaware of the scam - won't
be billed for fraudulent calls on their phone card
numbers, spokesmen for MCI, AT&T and Sprint said.
Secret Service sources familiar with the case said
the ring was unprecedented for its sophisticated use of
computers and ohter activities coordinated on a global
scale. According to MCI officials, the ring was more
sophisticated and better organized in comparison to
other credit card and calling card scams perpetrated in
the past by people who obtained small amounts of cards
by computer hacking or physical means, such as getting
carbon copies of purchases or watching customers enter
calling card numbers at airport terminals.
Lay, a switch engineer based in Charlotte, North
Carolina, was charged and arrested last week and
subsequently released on bail. He faces felony charges
of access device fraud and could serve 10 years if
convicted, the Secret Service said. Lay was unavailable
for comment.
MCI officials characterized the case as the
largest of its kind in terms of known losses. The ring
ran the gamut of crimes against telephone and computer
software companies said Leslie Aun, an MCI spokeswoman,
adding that Lay was fired immediately and turned over to
law enforcement officials when the investigation in
Charlotte was concluded last week.
The latest action ended a 4 1/2 month
investigation by the Secret Service into Calling Card
fraud. Search warrants were also served on six alleged
co-conspirators in Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia,
Minneapolis and Chicago, resulting in the seizure of
large quantities of customized computer gear and stolen
calling credit card numbers, the Secret Service said.
Secret Service Special Agent Steven A Sepulveda
said Lay, who was known in the computer hacking
community as Knightshadow devised special software to
trap calling card numbers from a variety of local and
long distance carriers coming across MCI's telephone
switching equipment. The card numbers were sold to
other co-conspirators, who in turn sold them to computer
hackers in the United States and Europe, Sepulveda said.
Secret Service sources said the co-conspirators
will shortly face indictments from a federal grand jury
in Charlotte, where all the cases are being
consolidated.
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