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