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Man convicted for using Limewire to steal identities

article published on 12 August, 2009

Frederick Wood, of Seattle, has been convicted and sentenced to 39 months in prison in prison this week for using the infamous P2P client Limewire to steal personal information from over 100 unsuspecting sharers. Kathryn Warma, assistant U.S. attorney in the Computer Hacking and Internet Crimes Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office says the identify theft is very common, but not to many ... [ read the full article ]

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solamf30
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_ 		12. August 2009 @ 19:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sad thing is if he would have used limewire to download music/movies he would have recieved more jail time and fines but since it was only identity theft he gets little time
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wabashman
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_ 		12. August 2009 @ 20:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i know right. total crap. let this guy get away with stealing people blind, and not punish him at all, total BS.
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amf0802
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_ 		12. August 2009 @ 21:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
At least this guy is caught and being prosecuted. I have been a victim of attempted identity theft, the person had access to my online accounts (bank/credit cards/paypal) because he had my username and passwords he got from a keylogger. Fortunately there were systems in place that kept him from doing any damage, but he tried to buy over $2000 in goods from Bestbuy. When I called the police, they said without record of anything actually being bought it would be very difficult to find and arrest him, and perhaps even harder to prove anything.

I have had other friends have credit cards opened in their names and when they tried to pursue legal action, they were pretty much told it was useless to even try. So at least this guy is getting what he deserves. Now...the people that are keeping sensitive financial information in a shared folder on Limewire is a whole other conversation.
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wabashman
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_ 		12. August 2009 @ 21:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
they probably didnt save it in the limewire folder. it probably was sharing their entire C: drive. or the my documents foler.
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o0cynix0o
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_ 		13. August 2009 @ 13:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by wabashman:
 i know right. total crap. let this guy get away with stealing people blind, and not punish him at all, total BS.
I'm pretty sure you mean "robbing" people blind...

And I think that this dude got what he deserves. I can't stand thieves.
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mystic
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_ 		13. August 2009 @ 14:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the question that needs to be asked is does everyone think this guy is a lone ranger or that others have jumped on the band wagon... it seems that children use limewire more then most adults and that most dont even know its on their system .. the sad thing is that anyone with a p2p is at risk if they can enter a share folder thats not set up right then more people need to know about it.. this is the news that the RIAA could get out and I'll bet dallors to dounuts that everyone with in a tv on cnn or cbs would be checking thier machines and removing the program and other p2p software on the family machine.. see kids think it will happen to others not to them .. well not a good idea when its mommy's and daddy's money your playing with.... limewire and other bittorrent programs make you available to be nailed not only by the RIAA but now by the crooks ... thanks for nothing limewire ... how long before someone sues them???????
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varnull
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_ 		13. August 2009 @ 14:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This guy did it the easy and traceable way.. some of us have been dropping backdoor keylogger trojans through limewire for years XD

ppw.. proper stuff
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