$37.5 Million Scammer Sentenced
 

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A man who admitted illegally using credit card information of about 900,000 people to sign them up for pornographic Web sites was sentenced Monday to more than 11 years in prison.

Kenneth H. Taves, 52, was also ordered to pay restitution for the scheme, which prosecutors estimated netted him $37.5 million.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/10/po....ap/index.html

Sorry if it's a dupe but I didn't see it posted and CNN just put it up 20 mins ago.

WOW! now THAT is an affiliate! :1orglaugh

$40mil and he got caught... Id like to meat his financial planner:1orglaugh

That was an awesome move! Too bad he got caught! :1orglaugh

That's a whoa whack of CC #s. :)

Should have stopped earlier and fled to Switzerland and relaxed

you kinda get scrutinized at those levels

damn. thats a lot of CC's

heh, if he didn't get caught we wouldn't of heard about him

ok, head count... who is missing from the board?

his only mistake was staying around for sentencing

LOL, I was thinking the same thing. lil2rich4u hasn't been around in a while! :)

No wonder why visa is so pissed. That's alot at $30-$40 a join.

Dam thats a shot load of work typing in all those Credit Card numbers

Worse than submitting galleries
lol

whoa, thats gonna save lots of chargebacks

It was his own company at 19.95 a pop. But still.. did he think no one would notice. 900k CCs. Wow

"He bought the credit card information from a Southern California bank for $5,000."

It doesn't even mention what fucking bank, WTF? Of course there are scumbags out there who will abuse 900k cc's if they can get them, I think they should focus a little more attention on how he got them.