Justicia Criminal

Abstract

In this essay I will discuss how Albert Gonzalez admitted his guilt in a court of Boston of 19 offenses that the state of Florida charged him, among them conspiracy, computer fraud, fraud and identity theft devices. Albert Gonzalez has become world famous for being the alleged mastermind of the theft of $ 130 million from the accounts of credit and debit cards.

In 2001, Gonzalez moved to New York and then to New Jersey where he began operations with at least 11 hackers from different countries. In 2003 he was first arrested for theft of credit card numbers, but the authorities decided to offer Gonzalez to participate with the FBI, seeing that he had extraordinary qualities. He would starts reporting to the federal agency as an assistant identifying credit card fraud.

As the law enforcement discovered, Gonzalez was a promising intermediary of a pirate programs expanded in early 2000 during the boom of Internet commerce. Albert Gonzalez was arrested and quickly led to the prosecutor's office of New Jersey in Newark, who, along with agents of the official detachment of cybercrime FBI was investigating without much success fraud credit cards and debit cards in ATMs the area. Not only had data from millions of accounts stored on his computer files from his apartment in New Jersey, but also had a knack for explaining your experience as online credit card fraudster.

After a couple of interviews, Gonzalez agreed to help the government to avoid prosecution. His help allowed the police to charge more than a dozen cybercrime criminals; the FBI employees convinced him for his own security to relocate back to Miami, his hometown. After rendering his assistance in another investigation, in early 2006 he became an informer of the FBI in Miami.

In 2007, the lawyers of Dave & Buster's called the FBI. This company had also been attacked, but their case was different. The thieves had managed to access the POS system. It turned out that, for two years, a secret agent of the San Diego office had been buying to Yastremskiy memory cards. The agent traveled to Thailand and Dubai to meet him, he copied the hard drive laptop Yastremskiy without noticing this. The FBI computer specialists checked the hard drive and found that Yastremskiy kept meticulously his documentation.

The records that they found appeared to be Yastremskiy largest provider of data stolen cards. However, all they could get from Yastremskiy was a record number of instant messaging. The FBI found in Yastremskiy very useful evidence. The investigation led them to a prisoner in North Carolina who was also a fraudster named Williams. Williams had been arrested carrying over $200,000 in cash. The FBI connected a USB flash drive that Williams wore at the time of his arrest and found a file containing a photograph of Gonzalez, a credit history and the address of Gonzalez sister in Miami.

The FBI officials finally

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