L ============================================================================ THE SYNDICATE REPORT Bell Information Transmittal No. 8 Released November 24, 1986 Featuring: Electronic Fraudulent Crackdowns (olt ccm 11\5) ISDN: A Primer Part III (eet 11\11) PicTel's 56-kbps 'PicturePhones' / Nynex (eet 11\11) by The Sensei ============================================================================ ELECTRONIC FRAUDULENT CRACKDOWNS: In this article; brought forth will be assorted bits of electronic computer crime crackdowns, and other misc. fraudulent proceedings. Actual identification of the criminal people will not be presented; initials will instead be used. This is for sole protection of The Syndicate Report and the prosecuted people. (I definitely don't need to be charged for some newly processed law.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP, 22 year old man, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., stands accused of American Express and MCI. Authorities say the man is charged with theft, possession of stolen property, avoiding payment of telephone property, "offenses against intellectual property and offenses against computer users." This is the second run-in with the law for the man from Fla. Last October he was accused of using his home computer to break into confidential computer files of Southern Bell Telephone Co., police said. ---------------------------------------- RW, A Silicon Valley businessman, has been sentenced to pay a 40,000$ fine and serve a five-year suspended prison sentence for his part in diverting a shipment of computer equipment to the Soviet bloc in 1985. RW, and associate of a brokerage firm, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. export laws by shipping a 196,000$ Digital Equipment Corp. computer and components from Haiti to Czechoslovakia in February 1985. ---------------------------------------- JS, 43, of Encino, Calif., has told local polic he's received numerous death threats from alleged extortionists visiting his computer bulliten board. Forum administrator JS told LA authorities he received threats and demands for money in electronic messages posted posted on his BBS throughout August and early September. "We can still make you life unfit for living," said one of the messages, according to a report by United Press International. ---------------------------------------- Police have arrested seven youths in the South Plainfield, N.J., area on charges they used their home computer to exchange stolen credit card numbers, swap information on how to make free long distance phone calls, and call coded phone numbers at the Pentagon. Middlex County Prosecutor AR also said the seven, all under the age of 18, had codes that would cause communications satellites to "change position," possibly interupting intercontinental communications, An AT&T spokesmans, however disputed that claim. The arrest of the seven represented the seventh major presecution under a one-year-old state computer crime law in New Jersey. ---------------------------------------- KG, a 19-year-old New Jersey pre-law student who said he was "addicted" to online computer games, was placed on probation and ordered to make restitution to CompuServe after pleading guilty to stealingcredit to continue playing. Court officials said KG played MegaWars for free for about three months on illegally obtained credit card account numbers. KG got the numbers from carbon copies of receipts he retrieved from trash bins at a local shopping center. ---------------------------------------- Three teen-agers have been arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., on charges they used credit card information stolen during an invasion of a TRW Corp. system in Cleveland. Eighteen-year-olds AP and MS (initials) could each face up to five years in prison and a 5,000$ fine if convicted. They are alleged to have used credit information stolen online from TRW to buy atleast 800$ in computer equipment. Florida State Sen. Edgar Dunn, in response to the events detailed in the previous story, has introduced a bill that would make credit card fraud via computer in that state subject to anti-racketeering laws. The measure would also tighten Florida's existing 1984 computer crime law to allow victems to recover three times their loss from computer crime as well as punitive damages, reports The Associated Press. ---------------------------------------- Transcall America, an Atlanta-based discount long-distance telephone service, has uncovered crackers who ran up at least 12,000$ in illegal calls in five months. According to company officials, no one has been charged, but the FBI is investigating the case and could bring state and federal charges. The crackers were caught when investigators allowed a stolen access code, which was posted on a CoCoa Beach bulletin board, to remain valid. To bogus calls were traced to several homes in Brevard County, Fla. ---------------------------------------- Crackers in at least three major cities have been blamed for a 60,000$ phone bill that was sent to a California man whose stolen credit card number was apparently posted on an underground network of computer bulletin boards. Officials with GTE-Sprint Communications Corp. told the Associated Press that computer vandals in Atlantic, Blatimore and New York used the Sprint number of RB of Campbell, Calif., to charge more than 250,000 minutes of calls in two months, Sprint spokesman MF said "an investigation is under way" with law enforcment officials in the three East Coast cities and at least seven other cities. RB's (owner of Sprint code) mid-July bill ran 722 pages and listed 17,311 calls. The total for 256,697 minutes on that bill came to 55,562.27$, non counting an 8,197$ "volume discount." ---------------------------------------- Kaypro Inc.'s national director of sales and marketing, SE, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for convictions related to a drug-smuggling conspiracy. Previously, the 27-year-old SE had pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to travel in interstate and foreign commerce in aid of racketeering and to a count of subscribing to a false tax return. Most of the things he has commited were done threw his personal computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To summarize these crimes, The Syndicate Report would just like to advise computer criminals to reveiw the previous articles and make sure the same mistake (>