
Scum
One hopes that the relatively lenient sentences were negotiated after being forthcoming to the NCA about their 'customers', although i'm not sure that such plea deals formally exist in the UK
In announcing the sentencing of three Brits who ran OTP Agency, an account-takeover business, the National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed how a 2021 report sent the fraudsters into a panicked frenzy. "Bro we are in big trouble," said Callum Picari, 23, from Hornchurch, in East London, after infosec reporter Brian Krebs mentioned …
It's the non-violent aspect of it rather than 'white collar' aspect of it. Three near-kids with no previous doing a non-aggravated burglary and netting £100k would probably be given even lesser sentences.
Rob someone's watch in the street while wielding a knife and the sentencing goes a bit differently.
Either this stuff is truly trivial or they were using product they got from somewhere else, 'cos I'm not seeing this gang of geniuses being collectively capable of scraping together enough brains to sort it on their own.
And as ever if you're going to do something don't be stupid enough to create & keep a whole load of extra written evidence!
The NCA has Hornchurch as being in Essex, (https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/website-operators-who-promised-fraudsters-instant-profit-if-they-subscribed-to-illegal-service-are-sentenced), but you are right, Hornchurch is in east London.
Snaresbrook Crown Court, incidentally, is a beautiful listed building. This vulture used to cycle there on the weekends. The grounds are beautiful and it's surrounded by marshes and parkland. East London can be really nice.
Yes, and they shouldn't. I was lied to throughout my youth, being told I was born and growing up in Essex. I certainly wasn't. It was London. And the Royal Mail specifically requests you not to put 'counties' on addresses any more, just towns. Everyone used to write "Hornchurch, Essex," but that's doubly wrong now. You just write "Hornchurch". Of course, you still get annoying forms asking for counties. Well I pick "London" which isn't a county at all.
Not that this issue annoys me or anything... ;-p
They'll never tell - it's all part of the conspiracy, do you see? El Reg is a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Vultures and to this end they're in amongst us, observing how we interact and behave, so they can make their bird robot spies better humans when the time comes to rise up and peck out our eyeballs
Sigh. Do we really have to bring politics into absolutely everything, no matter how unrelated? It's as tedious as those people who a few years ago were blaming everything, up to and including their skin rashes, on Obama.
You don't like <political party>. We get it. That's your right in a free society. You're also perfectly welcome to tell people how you don't like <political party>. Just not at every conceivable opportunity, please.
I'm a pretty political person but I have to agree with this.
Not everything needs to be political. Some things are just things to be related and appreciated on their own.
BTW, I'm not a criminal (I'm just too lazy to go out and commit crimes) but I habitually delete text strings as soon as they are no longer active or of immediate relevance. I just don't like having to fish through a load of random junk.