A gang of fraudsters have been jailed for a credit card scam thought to be worth more than £2m.
Eight men were sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court, in Manchester, today for their roles in the racket, in which they are believed to have targeted more than 2,000 businesses.
The gang used stolen or compromised credit cards to fraudulently order more than £600,000 worth of goods from 57 companies across the UK, a probe by GMP's fraud investigation team uncovered.
But officers believe that sum is the tip of the iceberg, with phone records suggesting they contacted more than 2,000 potential victims and couriers.
It is believed the actual losses could amount to more than £2m.
"Ammar Khalid, Irfan Khan and Ahmed Sohail Pasha directed operations from the comfort of their own homes, accessing the dark web and placing orders using the compromised card details.
I wonder where they bought the dumps? 'Dark web' is promising, but carding vendor shops do predate the markets and still operate.
EDIT: reading it more closely, could "accessing the dark web" be a journalist's way of saying 'they ordered off websites while using Tor to mask their IPs'? Then it wouldn't be DNMs at all...
EDITEDIT: reading more closely the articles and list of charges, they were doing this as a full-time gang from June 2011, when only SR1 and BMR were operating, only BMR allowed carding at that point, and I have a hard time seeing any minor carder on BMR supporting such a group of cashout-thieves. So I think this was not DNM-related.