Cybercrime: Djevair Ametovski Sentenced For Access Device Fraud And Aggravated Identity Theft

<h2>Operator of Global Cybercrime Marketplace Sentenced to 90 Months’ Imprisonment<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><strong>Defendant’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Codeshop” Website Sold Troves of Stolen Credit Card Data and Bank Account Logins on the Black Market<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mh-content-ad"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js&quest;client&equals;ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; crossorigin&equals;"anonymous"><&sol;script>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle"&NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;"&NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article"&NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid"&NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1081854981"><&sol;ins>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Earlier today&comma; in federal court in Brooklyn&comma; Djevair Ametovski&comma; a Macedonian citizen&comma; was sentenced by United States District Judge Eric N&period; Vitaliano to 90 months’ imprisonment after previously pleading guilty to access device fraud and aggravated identity theft&period; Those crimes related to Ametovski’s operation of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Codeshop&comma;” a website he created for the sole purpose of selling stolen credit and debit card data&comma; bank account credentials and personal identification information&period; Judge Vitaliano also ordered the defendant to forfeit &dollar;250&comma;000 and to pay restitution in an amount to be determined by the Court at a later date&period; Ametovski was arrested in Ljubljana&comma; Slovenia&comma; in January 2014&comma; and was extradited to the United States in May 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Richard P&period; Donoghue&comma; United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York&comma; and David E&period; Beach&comma; Special Agent-in-Charge&comma; United States Secret Service&comma; New York Field Office &lpar;USSS&rpar;&comma; announced the sentence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ametovski and his co-conspirators were merchants of crime&comma; stealing victims’ information and selling that information to other criminals&comma;” stated United States Attorney Donoghue&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This Office and our law enforcement partners will tirelessly pursue cybercriminals who seek to profit at others’ expense&period;” Mr&period; Donoghue thanked the Slovenian Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Justice&comma; the United States Marshals Service&comma; the U&period;S&period; Department of State Regional Security Officers in Slovenia and the Netherlands&comma; and the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs&comma; for their assistance with the investigation and prosecution of the defendant&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The sentencing of this transnational cybercriminal emphasizes the commitment of the Secret Service to disrupt and dismantle global criminal networks&comma;” stated USSS Special Agent-in-Charge Beach&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Secret Service will continue to work closely with our network of law enforcement partners to dismantle criminal enterprises seeking to victimize innocent people&comma; regardless of geographic distance or borders&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ametovski and his co-conspirators operated Codeshop between August 2010 and January 2014&comma; victimizing hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world by hacking into the computer databases of <a class&equals;"wpil&lowbar;keyword&lowbar;link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;tag&sol;financial-fraud&sol;amp&sol;" title&equals;"financial" data-wpil-keyword-link&equals;"linked" data-wpil-monitor-id&equals;"930">financial<&sol;a> institutions and other businesses and through &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;phishing” scams designed to induce accountholders to unwittingly surrender private identification information&period; They packaged this stolen data for sale and posted it on the Codeshop website&comma; a fully indexed and searchable website that allowed users to search by bank identification number&comma; financial institution&comma; country&comma; state and card brand to find the data they wanted&period; The stolen data could then be used to make online purchases and to encode plastic cards to withdraw cash at ATMs&period; Ametovski used a network of online money exchangers and anonymous digital currencies&comma; including Bitcoin&comma; to reap revenues from the Codeshop website and to conceal all participants’ identities&comma; including his own&period; Over the course of the scheme&comma; Ametovski obtained and sold stolen credit and debit card data for more than 1&period;3 million cards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s National Security &amp&semi; Cybercrime Section&period; Assistant United States Attorneys Saritha Komatireddy and David K&period; Kessler are in charge of the prosecution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Defendant&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DJEVAIR AMETOVSKI &lpar;also known as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;xhevo&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;codeshop&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sindrom” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sindromx”&rpar;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Age&colon; 32<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>E&period;D&period;N&period;Y&period; Docket No&period; 16-CR-409 &lpar;ENV&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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