Cyber criminals zero in on airlines

Stolen credit card numbers have been used by a Mumbai-Bangalore gang to book online tickets on Kingfisher, Jet Airways and Air Deccan. These have been sold at discounted rates to other customers.

When you book online, you’re required to give the credit card number, validity period and the last three digit numbers provided on the reverse of the card (PIN).

Ajay Patel randomly used 50 ICICI credit card numbers by changing the last two digits and in place of the PIN, he used another code to book the tickets.

His Bangalore counterparts used cybercafes to take the printouts of tickets and sold them at discounted rates till they were arrested by the Bangalore cyber crime cell.

The fraud came to light when ICICI Bank monitored online credit of purchases of Kingfisher Airlines and noticed an unusual pattern in one credit card user.

When the bank contacted him, he was unaware of these ticket purchases worth Rs 42,000. Online banking too has not been without complaints.

A Citibank account holder lodged a complaint that Rs 1,00,500 had been transferred from his account to another. After investigation, the perpetrators have been arrested.

They are on bail and the hard disks seized have been sent for analysis. After receiving the report, a chargesheet will be filed. Yet another interesting case has come to light.Two US nationals came to Bangalore to set up a call centre which operates in illegal pornography sites. They got credit card details of over 1.5 million users in the US and used this to siphon off money through another site.

Modus operandi: Daniel Pena and Robert (Bill) Smith have websites from which you can download MP3 files. These have sublinks to four porn sites which are paid sites. Izone Technologies Inc

When users of these websites pay to access these illegal sites, the credit card details are misused to access similar websites of their own creation which automatically debit money from them without their knowledge.

Pena and Smith had also asked their Indian company, Customer Connect Izone Technologies Inc, to service their toll-free number which had been set up to divert the grievances of their fraudulent websites in the US.

Otherwise, complaints would have been registered with banks which wouldhave immediately cancelled the e-commerce facility.

Enquiries have come in from the Federal Trade Commission, the FBI and other anti-fraud agencies from the US to check out the whereabouts of Bill Smith.

An Indian software engineer, who had been caught unknowingly in this scam, has filed an FIR; the case is under investigation. S Mahapatra, IGP, Economic Offences, (CoD) said the number of cases and enquiries areincreasing.

"Unlike before when banks and other organisations would not come forward to lodge complaints, now FIRs are being filed and we are using technology experts to help us investigate such cases," he said.

Source: http://cybercrime.planetindia.net/Cyber-criminals-zero-in-on-airlines.htm

Porn call divert

Owners of illegal porn sites direct calls to a call centre in the City to covre up credit card fraud.

SOURCE: http://unitespro.org/partner/Porn%20call%20divert.pdf

Is Daniel Pena any good?

Yes, i believe he is good...at bull****ing people. hahaha

Trust me folks, nothing to learn from this old fart. Barely browsed his book, it's just all about his glory days. He just loves to brag, and he is quite arrogant. Izone Technologies Inc I don't care if he made millions...on swindling! haha But the book is lousy. Try buying and see for yourself.

Basically his book is quite dumb, self-help gurus might even be better! haha

A former boss of mine said that "if you are crooked and have lot's of money..." follow him. That's the "Daniel Peña way". hahaha

These guys are actually currently residing in the Philippines while running their company Izone Technologies Inc, another fraud/scam whatever you may call it company. We're it's easier to get away with illegal stuff. I guess all the money they swindled have earned them a place to live in the wealthiest village there. They're pretty pretentious, shady, and smart dumbasses with alot of money. haha And that Robert (Bill) Smith, that's Daniel Peña's lapdog. hahaha

But anyway folks, nothing good to be associated with these guys. So the questions: "Is Dan Peña any good?"

Answer: if you are crooked, you might think he is. :-)

Source: http://www.warriorforum.com/mind-warriors-success-power-self-improvement/341770-dan-pena-any-good.html