Digital Underground - Swedish Hacker Association #sha-1

/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x S.H.A. AND I.H.A. PRESENTS 1990 NEWSLETTER PART ONE JANUARY - FEBRUARY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE CHIEF \x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x THIS NEWSLETTER CONTAINS PUBLIC DOCUMENTS ONLY AND SERVES AS INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE HACKER SOCIETY. ALL MATERIAL COMES FROM CONTRIBUTORS TO THE NEWSLETTER BY THE PUBLIC. S.H.A. AND I.H.A. TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ARTICLES AND MATERIAL IN THIS FILE. THIS IS NOT MENT TO BE ENCOURAGING ANY ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES. -ED /x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/ ABOUT THE BUST OF THE VISA-FRAUD GUYS PART I -------------------------------------------- Nine youngsters in the so called "Visa-affair" were prosecuted in the Southern Roslagen court January the 28th this year. The youngsters are suspected for major fraud with stolen creditcard-numbers. All of them are in the risk of going to jail. The police, on the other hand, does not believe that they will be judged that hard, because of their age and that they are not "real criminals". It has taken some time for Stockholm city attorney, Bo Skarinder, to get into all of the charges made against the nine youngsters who are between 17 to 21 years old. Together they are charged on 11 counts and the one who are worst affected has to face 2 cases of major fraud, 2 cases of attempt fraud and 3 illegal computer-entries. The minimum you can get when you are charged with major fraud is 6 months in jail. All of these "crimes" were made over one year ago. The youngsters have been calling USA and Great Britain, and placed orders at major computerstores. Then they paid with stolen creditcard- numbers (VISA and MASTER CARD). The stuff they paid for, were sent to a "Poste restante" adress where someone of the charged youngsters picked it up using false ID cards. Six cases of this have are registered, and two cases when the youngsters didn't collect the stuff at all. Stefan Kronqvist, at the Stockholm police dept., explains the matter by saying " They have been trying the possabilities with a number of knowingly lame companies, they didn't know that it was illegal." Kronqvist, who leads the investigation continues "The youngsters, like the so called "hackers", have created their own etic rules where you must break every rule possible. To be the worst is the best. This point of view is a direct copy from America." The creditcard-numbers and the company-names were obtained from collegues in the United States and Sweden. "I think that they regret everything now, tells Kronqvist, they are not real criminals." The major fraud and the attempt fraud cases have been made by six of the nine youngsters. Those three left, are faceing charges for recieving "stolen goods". When it comes to the illegal entries of computers, they have enterd the Swedish Telecom systems. "Pure and simple hacking", says Stefan kronqvist. "They have only been trying to get as far into the com- puter as possible and ment no harm with it." "Cred-a-Calc" is the program which generates correct creditcard-numbers and it is made by one (19 year old) of the accused. The accusation for this is "Preparation of fraud". The program generates MasterCard and VISA numbers. He has copied the program to two of his friends. "It is sad that these crimes have created a "bad" taste for the computer market", says Kronqvist. "I hope that these charges won't destroy for those computer-hobbyists who are using the computer legally." All of the nine youngsters have pleeded Guilty, and all of them are boys. The date for trial, will be given later. \x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\ (c) By Swedish Hackers Association 1990 (c) By International Hackers Association 1990

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