UK - Heavy jail sentences doled out to phisherfolk - cops

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/18/phishing_fraudsters_jailed/

Hi-tech Fagin couple used Apple scam cash to fly pickpockets to UK

The criminals setting up fraudulent adverts on Autotrader UK frequently phish car dealer accounts and news stories like this will give them pause for thought. Not only that, it also evidences that these criminals are running crime businesses involved in multiple illegal activities and the sooner they're stamped out the better or the consequences will be dire.

A pair of phishing fraudsters each received long jail terms after they were convicted of making £15,000 through online scams before using the funds to finance the travel of other crooks into the UK.

This information was used by the pair to siphon funds from compromised bank accounts. Stolen funds were then used to finance the travel into the UK of foreign nationals who went on to commit crime, mostly involving pick-pocketing on London's transport network, said cops.

Six Romanian nationals were detained at Luton Airport in February as part of a joint operation by the Metropolitan Police Service and Bedfordshire Police. The six claimed not to know each other even though all their tickets were bought from the same computer, which was traced to an address shared by Agrigoroaie and Savoae, said cops.