Re: Police and the Porn Fraud Mess

Apr 23, 2007 0 Replies


Following the bust, lists of customers and their credit card details


> were passed to various police forces for followup, including UK
> police. A considerable number of people here, including some
> well-known names, were questioned about accessing child p*rn. There
> have been some prosecutions and a number of suicides.

Successful prosecution!


It always seemed odd to me that there were that many people
> interested in child p*rn.

Sick, but not even odd.


The article linked to here reveals that before the bust, Landslide
> had discovered a high level of credit card fraud involving their > site.

No, really!? P*rn peddlers committing FRAUD! How surprizing (not).


Individual site operators were using lists of stolen card
> numbers to sign up batches of people to their own sites, obviously
> with the intention of disappearing with the 65%

Mmmm, more like 100%, n'est pas?

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