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High-living hacker swaps Porsche for porridge
A 21-year-old hacker was banged up yesterday for frauds netting him a Porsche, £40,000 in cash and £30,000 in gold bullion. Alistair Peckover is serving 20 months after pleading guilty to two counts of fraud, and admitting 50 other offences which were taken into consideration. Peckover targeted online betting sites, and also …
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Friday 18th June 2010 11:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
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20 months in this caring sharing society means he will probably only serve about 1 year at most and that will probably be in a open prison. If the police managed to find 70+k of goodies then you can bet your life that there is a lot more they didn't find. Especially since a lot of it was in conveniently sized gold bullion bars. So for his crimes he is getting a year at a health farm plus whatever cash/gold the police didn't find. Sounds like a good job to me.
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Saturday 19th June 2010 21:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
Plenty of times
Have you ever been near an open prison though?
Sure, places like Walton or Manchester are decidedly unpleasant but the open prisons I've had to visit for work have been better than some chilhood holidays I remember. Suffice to say, the piles of KFC/McD wrappers and empty beer cans in the bins *didn't* belong to the POs.
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Friday 18th June 2010 11:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
detective popular has many friends says subtext
"Detective Constable Des Hamilton, of the Sussex Police Major Fraud Unit, said: "This is a classic example of a self-taught obsessive loner with real computer skills but no concern for his impact on other people.""
Nice, does the fact that he is a loner have any relevance here or do you just enjoy lumping loners and anyone with the common sense to teach themselves a skill (how obsessive!) in with criminals and psychopaths. No wonder everyone hates the police.
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Friday 18th June 2010 13:14 GMT adnim
Who are you?
IP address? Well that's easy. He would have to be stupid to hack via his ISP unless routing through several Chinese or Russian proxies, even then there are still links back to your ISP account, although getting server logs from open proxies in China and Eastern Europe/Russia would be tricky.
Then there are so many insecure wireless networks that one would never have to hack from the same one twice. Although neighbors may report strange vehicles parked in the area for an unusual length of time, so it's not entirely risk free. But if he is good with scripts most of the hacking can be automated.
From the Telegraph:
"He also took rent money somebody had been paying their landlord via bank transfer and directed money to himself that someone had put aside to buy a car."
"...directed money to himself..." being the pertinent info.
The problem with any fraud is collecting the cash, the funds have to be transferred from somewhere to somewhere and unless a false identity is used at every stage, it is going to lead back.
There are ways to avoid detection, but I would have to kill myself if I told you.
It's a shame about my moral compass really, I could be a rich man, but would I be happy?
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Friday 18th June 2010 12:47 GMT Pascal Monett
Peckover ? Really ?
Good Lord, I was going to go the "serves him right" line as well, but hey, with a name like that it's no wonder he was a loner. He must have suffered no end in high school and he'll be in for some first-rate taunting in his "health farm" from his fellow . . . therapists ?
That said, he probably does have a stash somewhere. Gold bullion ? I thought that stuff was controlled.
Then again, maybe that's what got him done in.
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Friday 18th June 2010 14:21 GMT Melanie Winiger
Not the first time for Mr Peckover
This intrigued me in the Original El Reg article:
"Four months of his sentence were in respect of breach of a previous suspended sentence."
I thought, that is wierd.
Cue Mr Google and here's a 19 year old Peckover in 2009:
http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/crawley/news/Crawley-teenager-admits-39-000-Internet-betting-fraud/article-741508-detail/article.html
"A TEENAGER has admitted hacking into an online gambling site to pay himself £39,000."
He didn't listen to the judge last year:
"Speaking to Peckover, he added: "Try to spend some time out of doors and away from that computer.""
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Friday 18th June 2010 14:51 GMT The Other Steve
ZOMGWTF ! Hacking is NOT a crime FREE GARY!!!!!!
Oh no wait. Yes it is. Ludicrously low sentence, presumably because the CPS can't be arsed following up on the numerous CMA and RIP offences which must have by necessity been committed on the way to the fraud. Lazy bastards.
Fucker should think himself very, very lucky indeed not to have been properly prosecuted and punished.
Go on, knock yourselves out, I'm /made/ of asbestos, me.
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Thursday 1st July 2010 08:31 GMT Chaosechoz
A pat on the back for him!
Lets face facts, at some point in "everyone's" life they have done something, Shall we say "a little bit risky!". Ok most of us would never ever admit that we may have caused fraud to a bank or have stolen something from somewhere for someone....
So what, the guy got caught, do people really think he gives a crap, he pulled off a great money making hack. Now the sensible person in me (had the roles been reversed) would have been to place the bullion at 4 "private" locations. The money would have been moved on to an offshore account with one of the passports (lets face it thats all it REALLY takes nowadays).
Done, except for the obvious evidence IE PC's and whooping great car outside if he had actually thought it through he could have come off a winner really... But what do i know about hacking :)
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