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In the United States, members of the rapper team Pop Out Boyz were arrested, as well as most of their entourage. In total, law enforcement agencies detained 39 people who were charged with theft on a particularly large scale. It is reported that the rappers spent more than $250,000 in luxury stores in Manhattan, using clones of other people's bank cards to pay for purchases. At the same time, the Pop Out Boyz members didn't even seem to try to hide the fact that they were carding: they recorded tracks with titles like "For a Scammer" and talked from the stage about the beautiful life of carders.
Pop Out Boyz. Photo by Alec Tabak
An article in The New York Times, in which official representatives of law enforcement agencies tell about the actions of Pop Out Boyz, could pass for an April Fool's joke, but today is not the first of April.
Representatives of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office told reporters that this case perfectly reflects the new trends of the streets. Ordinary street crime and drug trafficking are no longer "in fashion" among young people, these guys prefer to steal other people's identities and engage in fraud with bank cards.
Armed with fake clones of other people's cards, information about which was purchased on the Darknet, the rappers went shopping: the group hired friends to visit luxury clothing and accessories boutiques in Manhattan. The prosecutor's office reports that the scammers made 275 purchases at the Barneys store in 55 days, spending a total of $ 258,000. At another high-end store, Saks, the rappers spent about $ 11,000. In total, the criminals operated more than 2,000 stolen cards belonging to customers of banks in France, Canada, Germany and Dubai.
Most of the members of the group were arrested on April 26, 2016. It is reported that the average age of those arrested is about twenty years, all of them come from ordinary working-class families, and many of them had no problems with the law before this case.
It doesn't look like the members of Pop Out Boyz have anything to do with what they do. On the contrary, carders, apparently, were proud of their success. So, one of the arrested Anthony McCoy (Anthony McCoy), in the rapper's party known as Ant Stay Maccin, did not hesitate to post photos on Facebook with bundles of hundred-dollar bills (see the illustration below). He started publishing such photos in May 2015, just when the group discovered bank card fraud schemes.
From Facebook by Anthony McCoy
The lyrics of Pop Out Boyz generally openly glorified carding. Here is a translation of part of one track: "I break cards because I'm a scammer. Watch loot do backflips, early morning on Saks Fifth, you see, you want, you get" ("I'm cracking cards' cause I'm a scammer. Watch the money do a back flip, early morning up at Saks Fifth, you see it, you want it, you have it»).
Photo: New York Police Department
(c) https://xakep.ru/2016/06/03/pop-out-boyz/
Pop Out Boyz. Photo by Alec Tabak
An article in The New York Times, in which official representatives of law enforcement agencies tell about the actions of Pop Out Boyz, could pass for an April Fool's joke, but today is not the first of April.
Representatives of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office told reporters that this case perfectly reflects the new trends of the streets. Ordinary street crime and drug trafficking are no longer "in fashion" among young people, these guys prefer to steal other people's identities and engage in fraud with bank cards.
Police say that starting in May 2015, members of the Pop Out Boyz collective and their friends purchased data on stolen credit cards on the sites Uniccshop, Joker's Stash, Rescator, and so on. On average, information about one bank card cost criminals 35-150 US dollars. A representative of the prosecutor's office said that the backbone of the criminal group consisted of 11 people, some of whom also purchased equipment necessary for home production of cards on the darknet. So, during the searches, the homes of several defendants were found card encoding machines, more than 120 ready-made cards, $ 3,315 in cash and several firearms (see the illustration above).
Armed with fake clones of other people's cards, information about which was purchased on the Darknet, the rappers went shopping: the group hired friends to visit luxury clothing and accessories boutiques in Manhattan. The prosecutor's office reports that the scammers made 275 purchases at the Barneys store in 55 days, spending a total of $ 258,000. At another high-end store, Saks, the rappers spent about $ 11,000. In total, the criminals operated more than 2,000 stolen cards belonging to customers of banks in France, Canada, Germany and Dubai.
Most of the members of the group were arrested on April 26, 2016. It is reported that the average age of those arrested is about twenty years, all of them come from ordinary working-class families, and many of them had no problems with the law before this case.
It doesn't look like the members of Pop Out Boyz have anything to do with what they do. On the contrary, carders, apparently, were proud of their success. So, one of the arrested Anthony McCoy (Anthony McCoy), in the rapper's party known as Ant Stay Maccin, did not hesitate to post photos on Facebook with bundles of hundred-dollar bills (see the illustration below). He started publishing such photos in May 2015, just when the group discovered bank card fraud schemes.
From Facebook by Anthony McCoy
The lyrics of Pop Out Boyz generally openly glorified carding. Here is a translation of part of one track: "I break cards because I'm a scammer. Watch loot do backflips, early morning on Saks Fifth, you see, you want, you get" ("I'm cracking cards' cause I'm a scammer. Watch the money do a back flip, early morning up at Saks Fifth, you see it, you want it, you have it»).
Photo: New York Police Department
(c) https://xakep.ru/2016/06/03/pop-out-boyz/
