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Re: Ebook websites, fraud charges, Devbill/DigitalAge/Pluto
Absolutely fascinating!!! MGD you are a cyber detective of the likes of the fictional characters in William Shatner's, Tek series Scifi books. 
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MGD, your work is astonishing. The cyber community owes you a vote of thanks.
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Re: Ebook websites, fraud charges, Devbill/DigitalAge/Pluto
I just ran some new searches after completing the above, and found a news article that I had previously missed. This July 07 notice from the Michigan Attorney General may be a partial reason for the ver 4.5 template sites phasing out and the full blast of ebook sightings. A cyber mule was arrested and charged:
quote:
Office of the Attorney General:
Cox Charges Woman with ID Theft
Agency: Attorney General
July 19, 2007
LANSING -- Attorney General Mike Cox today announced that he has charged Krystal Owens of Detroit with three-counts of identity theft and one-count of conspiring to commit identity theft.
"Identity theft is a devastating crime to its victims," said Cox. "My office will continue to be vigilant in defending Michigan's citizens from having their identities stolen."
Since January 2007, the Michigan Attorney General's Office has received more than 130 complaints from consumers across the country indicating that K.A.T.O. Technology, LLC, also known as K.A.M.K. Technology, LLC, had charged $12.95 against their credit card without their permission. The Attorney General's investigation found that in the summer of 2006, the defendant Krystal Owens conspired with Tomas Lasinkas of POV Web Design Solutions to set up bogus corporations, banking accounts, and other arrangements thereby enabling Lasinkas to make unauthorized charges against consumers credit card accounts using the bogus company names K.A.T.O. Technology, LCC and K.A.M.K. Technology, LLC. From September 2006 to March 2006, Lasinkas made 75 to 100 unauthorized charges, at $12.95 each, on a daily basis, and Owens wired the illegal proceeds to Lasinkas' bank accounts in Bulgaria on a regular basis. Lasinkas and Owens accumulated approximately $200,000 by way of this fraudulent activity during a six month period.
A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. The penalty for identity theft is up to 5 years in prison and/or a fine up to $10,000.
Source: »www.michigan.gov/ag/0,1607,7-164···,00.html
That seems really severe, I do not believe based on my experience of the syndicate, that it was possible for Krystal Owens to "conspire", that would require knowledge and intent.
It appears that a subsequent article in the Detroit Free Press investigated and picked up on that angle:
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................. Krystal Owens, 40, of Detroit was arraigned Thursday on three counts of identity theft and one count of conspiring to commit identity theft for allegedly bilking people out of at least $200,000, Cox said. If convicted, she faces up to five years in prison for each count of identity theft and/or a fine of up to $10,000.
But a Free Press review conducted late Thursday and early today of the particulars of the case raises questions about whether Owens was a willing or unwitting participant in a potential online version of a get-rich-quick scheme. The attorney general's office was not available for comment on this issue early this morning.
Owens was charged after more than 130 people nationwide filed complaints since January with the Michigan Attorney General's Office that their credit cards were billed $12.95 without their permission by K.A.T.O. Technology, LLC, or K.A.M.K. Technology, LLC. ........
Source: »www.redorbit.com/news/technology···dex.html
From my November 2006 archive of the website "factory"
kato-technologies.com +1-(313)-281-8090 K.A.T.O. Technology, LLC
kamk-templates.com +1-(313)-281-1325 K.A.M.K. Technology, LLC
KATO
I wonder if they are aware of the full scope of the operation, and that other than a momentary blip it is still running.
Strange in that I cannot find any subsequent activity of this July case.
This may explain why the funds, though still assigned to the same named beneficiary: Inowest Enterprises Inc., may now be going to another country instead of Bulgaria. I would like to get confirmation from another cybermule that they are in fact going to Kurdistan. Of course either place is probabaly one of many stops and conversions that take place on the way to a final destination.
I don't for a moment believe that there is or ever was a "Tomas Lasinkas" and "Povilas Baranauskas" it don't get any more "Lithuanian" sounding than that. Plus hang up a large shingle saying "here is our address, this is where we are at" and you can bet that it is the last place on earth that the real criminals are going to be at. Nor do I think that there was an executive from the crime syndicate waiting at the Bulgarian bank for the weekly wire transfers to come in.
By the way several subtle attempts to get "Lasinkas" out in the open failed. Even when his accounts were blocked and his money was at stake, he still wouldn't crawl out of his shell.
Here is his voice circa Feb. 2007. Bad quality because he was using Skype, ID was +1(000)012-3456
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