$1 Million of Forged Credit Card Money Bought iPads and Macs for Prisoners [Crimes]

Prisoners at The Big Apple ‘s Rikers Island jail had been caught buying up iPads and Macs in an elaborate cyber-crime arrangement that saw them forging credit cards -your credit cards, people!-to buy $1m of Apple products.

This hip young thing with a taste for Apple kit? 28-year-old Shaheed Bilal, who tasked his three younger brothers, girlfriend and 22 other friends and family-members inside the outside world with purchasing the gadgets, to sell on at discounted rates.

They bought stolen credit card details online-which we know is reasonable and straightforward to do -and then encoded them into magnetic strips of alternative cards. As the cards had the crims’ names and not the victims, they outfoxed the police for three years.

All crimes should be treated, and lo, nine people inside the ring have already appeared in court. [ NY Daily News via Gawker ]

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