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THE MOST DANGEROUS CARDERS.
These carders hacked the system and deceived the whole world. They were able to steal millions, destroy databases and even go to war against the largest intelligence agencies. Their crimes became a legend, and governments of different countries tried to catch them.
Who are they? How did they manage to commit the biggest cybercrimes in history? And most importantly – how did it end?
In this topic you will learn:
These stories will shock even experienced cybersecurity experts.
Have you ever heard of people who can steal hundreds of millions of dollars without leaving home? People who hacked the systems of the largest banks, sold secret data and considered themselves elusive? They thought they were impossible to find. They lived like kings, enjoying a luxurious life, until one mistake led the secret services to them. Today I will tell you about three of the most brilliant hackers, carders, scammers in history who thought they outsmarted the whole world. But
the FBI proved otherwise. But remember, this video is purely informational, I do not promote crime and do not teach carding methods. What will be in this video? How did one person steal 170 million bank cards and work for the FBI? How did a virus infect millions of computers and bring its creator 100 million dollars? How did an entire hacker mafia clean out the largest bank in the world and remain unpunished?
"Ready? Then buckle up and let's go!" The dark, damp Miami air seeps into the dark room. The hum of traffic outside is interrupted by the faint click of keys. He sits in front of his computer screen, illuminated only by a soft bluish light. On the screen is an endless stream of numbers and letters. Credit card numbers, bank account numbers, passwords.
He scrolls through files of hundreds of thousands of lines, each one someone's savings, someone's money, someone's life, but to him it's just code, just numbers, just business. Albert Gonzalez, a name that will go down in history as the man who stole 170 million bank cards, the man who thought he had outsmarted the world, the man who worked for the FBI and robbed the largest banks in the United States at the same time, but he made one fatal mistake.
In 1995, an ordinary residential apartment in Miami, at first glance an unremarkable place, a two-story house, green lawns, rare cars driving along the street. Here lives 14-year-old Albert Gonzalez, a skinny teenager with a focused look. While his peers play football or ride bicycles, Albert sits at the computer, he spends hours studying how sites are arranged, how servers work.
The Internet is just beginning to develop. And then you understand that there are endless possibilities hidden here. His first hack is his own school's website. He finds a vulnerability, gains access to the database and changes his grades. It was too easy. He does not try to cover his tracks, just turns off the computer and goes to bed. The next day, the principal calls him into his office. Albert, we have some strange things in the grading system. Do you know anything about this? The guy shrugs, but he is not stupid, he understands that he was found out, but the teachers do not punish him, considering it just a prank.
He goes home with the only thought, if it was so easy, what else can I do? Soon he finds an underground community of carders on the Internet, chats, closed forums where they discuss how to hack a site, how to bypass protection. He quickly gets into it, becomes a part of this world. And now he is 16 years old, he already knows how to hack sites, but now he wants to make money.
He learns that you can trade stolen bank cards on the Internet. How? Very simple. He finds vulnerable sites where people enter their data. He stealthily intercepts their passwords, card numbers, then sells them on underground forums. $50 for a card with a balance of 5,000, $20 for a card with a balance of 1,000. The money starts trickling in. He buys himself his first expensive phone, his first laptop, his first designer items.
His parents don’t understand where he gets his money from. Albert, have you found a job? Yes, a job as a programmer. In a sense, he programs chaos. The year is 2001, he is 20 years old. He is already a real professional. But he gets bored working alone. He finds the Shadow Crew, a hacker group that works on a large scale. They steal millions of dollars, sell fake passports, hack into bank systems.
Albert quickly becomes one of their leaders. He helps organize the work, comes up with schemes. Now he is not just stealing money, he is building an empire. But all this was a warm-up. In 2005, he decided to go to the next level, he developed a brilliant scheme. It is based on SQL, a vulnerability injection that allows access to databases.
What does he do? He hacks into the systems of the largest banks and downloads 170 million card numbers. 170! This scheme brings him hundreds of millions of dollars. Now he lives like a king in Lamborghini, Ferrari, the best hotels, tens of millions of dollars in offshore accounts. He is sure that no one will find him. But the FBI has already started the hunt. How did the FBI figure him out? For three years, the FBI was looking for clues, but Gonzalez was cautious.
Then the agents took a different approach. They started following his friends. One of them made a mistake. He transferred money through the Western Union system. The FBI tracked the transfer, found his IP, and then figured out Gonzalez himself. In 2008, a luxury room in Miami, the sound of the surf outside the window, sunlight, expensive curtains, Gonzalez is sitting in front of his laptop, suddenly there is a loud knock on the door - "Open up, FBI!"
Gonzalez does not even have time to turn on the computer, he presses the game to the floor, a database with thousands of card numbers opens on the laptop screen. The trial lasted months. Albert Gonzalez stole billions of dollars. He cooperated with the FBI. Prosecutor. Albert Gonzalez stole millions of dollars. Lawyer. He cooperated with the FBI. He helped the investigation. Judge. But he continued to steal. The verdict. 20 years in prison. What's wrong with him now?
Today, Albert Gonzalez is in jail. And go-history is a lesson to all carders. You may think that we will not catch you, but one mistake and I will find you. Moving on to the next carder, Evgeny Bogachev. Winter, 2013. Under cover of night, a man carefully pulls back the curtain in his house on the Black Sea coast. He looks out the window, watching the street. No suspicious cars, no movement, all is calm.
He takes a sip of coffee, sits down in front of a huge monitor and continues to work. On the screen there is a graph of bank transactions, grabbing windows with reports and long lines of code. He knows that he is being watched. He knows that the FBI is looking for him, and there is a $3 million reward on his head. He is not afraid, because Evgeny Bogachev is the most wanted cybercriminal in the world, a man who created a virus that infected 100 million computers and stole more than $100 million.
And the most interesting thing is that they still can’t catch him. Russia, the end of the 90s. Young Evgeny Bogachev was never a typical child. While his peers were kicking the ball around and watching action movies, he spent his days and nights at the computer. No one was interested in entertainment. He needed company. He wanted to understand how the world of data worked.
At 14, he wrote his first script, a primitive program for collecting information from websites. At 16, he had already created a malicious program that allowed him to penetrate other people’s computers. This was a time when the Internet was not yet protected, since now websites broke in a second, databases were open, and personal data was poorly protected. Bogachevo creates a unique talent that can bring shadow.
In 2005, he created his first network of infected computers, Botnet. These are hundreds of machines on which he quietly installed a virus. How did he do it? Very simple. He used fake software updates, spam mailings, infected websites. People didn't even suspect that he was now controlling their computers. At first, he tests the system on small transactions. Stolen logins, passwords, small amounts.
Everything works, but he wants more. In 2007, he creates ZEUS, a virus that becomes his main weapon. How does it work? A person goes to a site infected with a virus, ZEUS is installed on the computer and remains invisible. It intercepts logins and passwords, card numbers, bank data, and all this is automatically sent to Bogachev. This virus was brilliant, it could infect millions of computers at once, remaining unnoticed for years and bypassing all security systems.
In 2009, his botnet was gigantic, millions of infected computers in the USA, Europe, Asia, banks Welfargo, Bank of America, Citibank were hacked. Every day, his network stole millions of dollars, at some point he could control more computers than large IT companies.
At first, no one could figure out how banks were losing millions of dollars. But in 2010, the FBI noticed a strange pattern. They saw that the money was disappearing in a certain pattern. Their conclusion was that somewhere, there was one person who was running the entire network. They gave him the code name "the genius of darkness." But the problem was, they didn't know who he was or where he was. In 2012, FBI agents already knew that a group of Russian carders was behind the attacks.
But who was the boss? They started tracking suspicious transfers. In 2013, they found a weak spot. One of the people forgot to turn off the VPN when transferring money. He entered the IP address in Russia. The FBI officially declared Evgeny Bogachev wanted. Why can't they catch her? In 2015, the US put a $3 million bounty on his capture. But Evgeny Bogachev is still at large.
Why? He lives in Russia, and the US can't extradite him. He uses a sophisticated security system that leaves no trace. He makes no mistakes, and the FBI believes he is still active. What is he doing now? Today, Evgeny Bogachev lives in luxury. According to intelligence, he owns real estate on the Black Sea coast, drives luxury cars, and continues to run a secret business. But even now, he remains a ghost.
You can be the smartest carder in the world, but even the smartest make mistakes sometimes. The final story Maxim Yakubets and Evil Corp. Night city Moscow, late 2010. The sound of a powerful engine can be heard in the distance. A black Lamborghini Aventador rushes through the narrow streets. Camera flashes and street lights reflect on the lacquered body of the car. In 2010, Yakubets creates Evilcorp. This is not just a group of carders, it is a clear criminal structure that works like a real mafia clan. Unlike other carders, they do not hide, they work confidently, brazenly, aggressively, and most importantly, they use a completely new level of hacking. Their main weapon was the Drinox virus. How it works: the victim receives a letter from a bank or tax office, opens the attachment and the virus is instantly installed.
But the strangest thing is the license plate, on which the word THIEF proudly flaunts. The man behind the wheel grins, adds a little grin and disappears into the darkness. This is Maxim Yakubets, the leader of Evil Corp, a dangerous hacker group. He stole hundreds of millions of dollars, broke the systems of the largest banks, ruined thousands of companies. And all this time he lived openly, with luxury that even a top Google manager could not afford.
He thinks that no one will catch him, but one day his luck runs out. Maxim Yakubets. Russia. The beginning of the 90s. Maxim Yakubets grows up in a middle-class family. Since childhood, he is drawn to the computer, quickly learns programming. At 16, he can already bypass passwords, replace data, remotely control the device. It all started with a harmless prank. Hacking the school network, replacing grades, but he quickly realizes that this is not just a game, it is a business. Girdex connects to the banking system and intercepts all the data.
The money was transferred to dummy accounts and left via cryptocurrency. It was the perfect weapon, they could steal millions of dollars in one day. Unlike other carders, Yakubets did not hide. He drove expensive supercars, bought luxury real estate, threw money around at parties, in the most expensive clubs. But the biggest impudence was in a Lamborghini with thief license plates. He literally leaves us clues himself, the FBI agent will say later. The FBI got to Evilcorp. American intelligence agencies began an investigation in 2014. They noticed that the attack was coming from Russia. They tracked cryptocurrency transfers.
They followed those associated with Yakubets. In 2019, the FBI officially charged Maxim Yakubtsov with major cybercrimes. Why isn't Yakubtsov in prison? The US appointed $5 million for his capture, but they never separated him. Why? Again, he lives in Russia, and the US cannot extradite him. He has connections and protection, he doesn't make mistakes anymore. What's wrong with him now? Today, Maxim Yakubtsov is free, but now he keeps a low profile, his luxury cars are gone, he doesn't post photos, he doesn't throw loud parties, but one thing is for sure, he's still playing the game. Here they are, the three most wanted carders of his time. Albert Gonzalez, the man who stole 170 million bank cards, earning millions in the shadows, but made a fatal mistake. Evgeny Bogachev, the creator of the Zeus virus that infected millions of computers, stole more than 100 million dollars, and the man who still can't be caught.
Maxim Yakubtsov. Leader of Evil Corp. The man who robbed the world's largest banks, lived in luxury, left digital traces, but still escaped arrest. Three criminals, three geniuses, three villains who thought they had outsmarted the system. But what do their fates have in common? Why do even the smartest carders get caught? Vanity is the main enemy of genius criminals. All three could not simply hide, they needed to demonstrate success. Gonzalez did not just steal money, he reigned over it, he threw parties in five-star hotels and bought expensive cars, which led to the attention of the authorities. Gonzalez was a transferred member of his own group, who made a deal with the authorities.
Evil Corp gave away some small participants in the scheme, left traces in money transfers. Bogachev held out for a long time, but one day his assistant forgot to turn on the VPN, and that was enough. Many people think that anonymity on the Internet is possible, but the truth is, any digital trace remains forever. Intelligence agencies used Big Data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, analytics to track money and identities. If you made a mistake even once, you can be found even years later. The FBI used a combination of old digital data and new technologies to catch all three carders.
The Internet gave people unlimited opportunities, but at the same time, it gave the illusion of complete freedom. Albert Gonzalez is in prison. He thinks he controlled the game, but he turned out to be a pawn. Evgeniy was getting rich and is still free, but he lives knowing that the FBI is watching his every move. Maxim Yakubets is not behind bars, but he no longer leads the luxurious life he enjoyed before. All three made a fantastic career, but eventually lost everything. This is the path of a criminal. You can be a genius, you can outsmart the system, you can think that you will not be caught, but one day someone will knock on your door. Which of these carders surprised you the most? Write in the comments. If you liked the topic, put a like.
Yakubets openly drove a Lamborghini with a thief number, provoking the FBI and bragging about his crimes. Even Bogachev, who was a little more careful, left too many traces, allowing the FBI to build a digital portrait of him. Any criminal organization is built on mutual trust, but, as practice shows, there are no ideal people. The FBI often catches criminals. Not directly, but through their circle.
These carders hacked the system and deceived the whole world. They were able to steal millions, destroy databases and even go to war against the largest intelligence agencies. Their crimes became a legend, and governments of different countries tried to catch them.
Who are they? How did they manage to commit the biggest cybercrimes in history? And most importantly – how did it end?
In this topic you will learn:
- The most dangerous carders who challenged the system
- How They Hacked Banks, Corporations, and Government Databases
- Why the secret services were afraid of them – and what happened after they were exposed
These stories will shock even experienced cybersecurity experts.
Have you ever heard of people who can steal hundreds of millions of dollars without leaving home? People who hacked the systems of the largest banks, sold secret data and considered themselves elusive? They thought they were impossible to find. They lived like kings, enjoying a luxurious life, until one mistake led the secret services to them. Today I will tell you about three of the most brilliant hackers, carders, scammers in history who thought they outsmarted the whole world. But
the FBI proved otherwise. But remember, this video is purely informational, I do not promote crime and do not teach carding methods. What will be in this video? How did one person steal 170 million bank cards and work for the FBI? How did a virus infect millions of computers and bring its creator 100 million dollars? How did an entire hacker mafia clean out the largest bank in the world and remain unpunished?
"Ready? Then buckle up and let's go!" The dark, damp Miami air seeps into the dark room. The hum of traffic outside is interrupted by the faint click of keys. He sits in front of his computer screen, illuminated only by a soft bluish light. On the screen is an endless stream of numbers and letters. Credit card numbers, bank account numbers, passwords.
He scrolls through files of hundreds of thousands of lines, each one someone's savings, someone's money, someone's life, but to him it's just code, just numbers, just business. Albert Gonzalez, a name that will go down in history as the man who stole 170 million bank cards, the man who thought he had outsmarted the world, the man who worked for the FBI and robbed the largest banks in the United States at the same time, but he made one fatal mistake.
In 1995, an ordinary residential apartment in Miami, at first glance an unremarkable place, a two-story house, green lawns, rare cars driving along the street. Here lives 14-year-old Albert Gonzalez, a skinny teenager with a focused look. While his peers play football or ride bicycles, Albert sits at the computer, he spends hours studying how sites are arranged, how servers work.
The Internet is just beginning to develop. And then you understand that there are endless possibilities hidden here. His first hack is his own school's website. He finds a vulnerability, gains access to the database and changes his grades. It was too easy. He does not try to cover his tracks, just turns off the computer and goes to bed. The next day, the principal calls him into his office. Albert, we have some strange things in the grading system. Do you know anything about this? The guy shrugs, but he is not stupid, he understands that he was found out, but the teachers do not punish him, considering it just a prank.
He goes home with the only thought, if it was so easy, what else can I do? Soon he finds an underground community of carders on the Internet, chats, closed forums where they discuss how to hack a site, how to bypass protection. He quickly gets into it, becomes a part of this world. And now he is 16 years old, he already knows how to hack sites, but now he wants to make money.
He learns that you can trade stolen bank cards on the Internet. How? Very simple. He finds vulnerable sites where people enter their data. He stealthily intercepts their passwords, card numbers, then sells them on underground forums. $50 for a card with a balance of 5,000, $20 for a card with a balance of 1,000. The money starts trickling in. He buys himself his first expensive phone, his first laptop, his first designer items.
His parents don’t understand where he gets his money from. Albert, have you found a job? Yes, a job as a programmer. In a sense, he programs chaos. The year is 2001, he is 20 years old. He is already a real professional. But he gets bored working alone. He finds the Shadow Crew, a hacker group that works on a large scale. They steal millions of dollars, sell fake passports, hack into bank systems.
Albert quickly becomes one of their leaders. He helps organize the work, comes up with schemes. Now he is not just stealing money, he is building an empire. But all this was a warm-up. In 2005, he decided to go to the next level, he developed a brilliant scheme. It is based on SQL, a vulnerability injection that allows access to databases.
What does he do? He hacks into the systems of the largest banks and downloads 170 million card numbers. 170! This scheme brings him hundreds of millions of dollars. Now he lives like a king in Lamborghini, Ferrari, the best hotels, tens of millions of dollars in offshore accounts. He is sure that no one will find him. But the FBI has already started the hunt. How did the FBI figure him out? For three years, the FBI was looking for clues, but Gonzalez was cautious.
Then the agents took a different approach. They started following his friends. One of them made a mistake. He transferred money through the Western Union system. The FBI tracked the transfer, found his IP, and then figured out Gonzalez himself. In 2008, a luxury room in Miami, the sound of the surf outside the window, sunlight, expensive curtains, Gonzalez is sitting in front of his laptop, suddenly there is a loud knock on the door - "Open up, FBI!"
Gonzalez does not even have time to turn on the computer, he presses the game to the floor, a database with thousands of card numbers opens on the laptop screen. The trial lasted months. Albert Gonzalez stole billions of dollars. He cooperated with the FBI. Prosecutor. Albert Gonzalez stole millions of dollars. Lawyer. He cooperated with the FBI. He helped the investigation. Judge. But he continued to steal. The verdict. 20 years in prison. What's wrong with him now?
Today, Albert Gonzalez is in jail. And go-history is a lesson to all carders. You may think that we will not catch you, but one mistake and I will find you. Moving on to the next carder, Evgeny Bogachev. Winter, 2013. Under cover of night, a man carefully pulls back the curtain in his house on the Black Sea coast. He looks out the window, watching the street. No suspicious cars, no movement, all is calm.
He takes a sip of coffee, sits down in front of a huge monitor and continues to work. On the screen there is a graph of bank transactions, grabbing windows with reports and long lines of code. He knows that he is being watched. He knows that the FBI is looking for him, and there is a $3 million reward on his head. He is not afraid, because Evgeny Bogachev is the most wanted cybercriminal in the world, a man who created a virus that infected 100 million computers and stole more than $100 million.
And the most interesting thing is that they still can’t catch him. Russia, the end of the 90s. Young Evgeny Bogachev was never a typical child. While his peers were kicking the ball around and watching action movies, he spent his days and nights at the computer. No one was interested in entertainment. He needed company. He wanted to understand how the world of data worked.
At 14, he wrote his first script, a primitive program for collecting information from websites. At 16, he had already created a malicious program that allowed him to penetrate other people’s computers. This was a time when the Internet was not yet protected, since now websites broke in a second, databases were open, and personal data was poorly protected. Bogachevo creates a unique talent that can bring shadow.
In 2005, he created his first network of infected computers, Botnet. These are hundreds of machines on which he quietly installed a virus. How did he do it? Very simple. He used fake software updates, spam mailings, infected websites. People didn't even suspect that he was now controlling their computers. At first, he tests the system on small transactions. Stolen logins, passwords, small amounts.
Everything works, but he wants more. In 2007, he creates ZEUS, a virus that becomes his main weapon. How does it work? A person goes to a site infected with a virus, ZEUS is installed on the computer and remains invisible. It intercepts logins and passwords, card numbers, bank data, and all this is automatically sent to Bogachev. This virus was brilliant, it could infect millions of computers at once, remaining unnoticed for years and bypassing all security systems.
In 2009, his botnet was gigantic, millions of infected computers in the USA, Europe, Asia, banks Welfargo, Bank of America, Citibank were hacked. Every day, his network stole millions of dollars, at some point he could control more computers than large IT companies.
At first, no one could figure out how banks were losing millions of dollars. But in 2010, the FBI noticed a strange pattern. They saw that the money was disappearing in a certain pattern. Their conclusion was that somewhere, there was one person who was running the entire network. They gave him the code name "the genius of darkness." But the problem was, they didn't know who he was or where he was. In 2012, FBI agents already knew that a group of Russian carders was behind the attacks.
But who was the boss? They started tracking suspicious transfers. In 2013, they found a weak spot. One of the people forgot to turn off the VPN when transferring money. He entered the IP address in Russia. The FBI officially declared Evgeny Bogachev wanted. Why can't they catch her? In 2015, the US put a $3 million bounty on his capture. But Evgeny Bogachev is still at large.
Why? He lives in Russia, and the US can't extradite him. He uses a sophisticated security system that leaves no trace. He makes no mistakes, and the FBI believes he is still active. What is he doing now? Today, Evgeny Bogachev lives in luxury. According to intelligence, he owns real estate on the Black Sea coast, drives luxury cars, and continues to run a secret business. But even now, he remains a ghost.
You can be the smartest carder in the world, but even the smartest make mistakes sometimes. The final story Maxim Yakubets and Evil Corp. Night city Moscow, late 2010. The sound of a powerful engine can be heard in the distance. A black Lamborghini Aventador rushes through the narrow streets. Camera flashes and street lights reflect on the lacquered body of the car. In 2010, Yakubets creates Evilcorp. This is not just a group of carders, it is a clear criminal structure that works like a real mafia clan. Unlike other carders, they do not hide, they work confidently, brazenly, aggressively, and most importantly, they use a completely new level of hacking. Their main weapon was the Drinox virus. How it works: the victim receives a letter from a bank or tax office, opens the attachment and the virus is instantly installed.
But the strangest thing is the license plate, on which the word THIEF proudly flaunts. The man behind the wheel grins, adds a little grin and disappears into the darkness. This is Maxim Yakubets, the leader of Evil Corp, a dangerous hacker group. He stole hundreds of millions of dollars, broke the systems of the largest banks, ruined thousands of companies. And all this time he lived openly, with luxury that even a top Google manager could not afford.
He thinks that no one will catch him, but one day his luck runs out. Maxim Yakubets. Russia. The beginning of the 90s. Maxim Yakubets grows up in a middle-class family. Since childhood, he is drawn to the computer, quickly learns programming. At 16, he can already bypass passwords, replace data, remotely control the device. It all started with a harmless prank. Hacking the school network, replacing grades, but he quickly realizes that this is not just a game, it is a business. Girdex connects to the banking system and intercepts all the data.
The money was transferred to dummy accounts and left via cryptocurrency. It was the perfect weapon, they could steal millions of dollars in one day. Unlike other carders, Yakubets did not hide. He drove expensive supercars, bought luxury real estate, threw money around at parties, in the most expensive clubs. But the biggest impudence was in a Lamborghini with thief license plates. He literally leaves us clues himself, the FBI agent will say later. The FBI got to Evilcorp. American intelligence agencies began an investigation in 2014. They noticed that the attack was coming from Russia. They tracked cryptocurrency transfers.
They followed those associated with Yakubets. In 2019, the FBI officially charged Maxim Yakubtsov with major cybercrimes. Why isn't Yakubtsov in prison? The US appointed $5 million for his capture, but they never separated him. Why? Again, he lives in Russia, and the US cannot extradite him. He has connections and protection, he doesn't make mistakes anymore. What's wrong with him now? Today, Maxim Yakubtsov is free, but now he keeps a low profile, his luxury cars are gone, he doesn't post photos, he doesn't throw loud parties, but one thing is for sure, he's still playing the game. Here they are, the three most wanted carders of his time. Albert Gonzalez, the man who stole 170 million bank cards, earning millions in the shadows, but made a fatal mistake. Evgeny Bogachev, the creator of the Zeus virus that infected millions of computers, stole more than 100 million dollars, and the man who still can't be caught.
Maxim Yakubtsov. Leader of Evil Corp. The man who robbed the world's largest banks, lived in luxury, left digital traces, but still escaped arrest. Three criminals, three geniuses, three villains who thought they had outsmarted the system. But what do their fates have in common? Why do even the smartest carders get caught? Vanity is the main enemy of genius criminals. All three could not simply hide, they needed to demonstrate success. Gonzalez did not just steal money, he reigned over it, he threw parties in five-star hotels and bought expensive cars, which led to the attention of the authorities. Gonzalez was a transferred member of his own group, who made a deal with the authorities.
Evil Corp gave away some small participants in the scheme, left traces in money transfers. Bogachev held out for a long time, but one day his assistant forgot to turn on the VPN, and that was enough. Many people think that anonymity on the Internet is possible, but the truth is, any digital trace remains forever. Intelligence agencies used Big Data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, analytics to track money and identities. If you made a mistake even once, you can be found even years later. The FBI used a combination of old digital data and new technologies to catch all three carders.
The Internet gave people unlimited opportunities, but at the same time, it gave the illusion of complete freedom. Albert Gonzalez is in prison. He thinks he controlled the game, but he turned out to be a pawn. Evgeniy was getting rich and is still free, but he lives knowing that the FBI is watching his every move. Maxim Yakubets is not behind bars, but he no longer leads the luxurious life he enjoyed before. All three made a fantastic career, but eventually lost everything. This is the path of a criminal. You can be a genius, you can outsmart the system, you can think that you will not be caught, but one day someone will knock on your door. Which of these carders surprised you the most? Write in the comments. If you liked the topic, put a like.
Yakubets openly drove a Lamborghini with a thief number, provoking the FBI and bragging about his crimes. Even Bogachev, who was a little more careful, left too many traces, allowing the FBI to build a digital portrait of him. Any criminal organization is built on mutual trust, but, as practice shows, there are no ideal people. The FBI often catches criminals. Not directly, but through their circle.
