A distich of dudes with more smarts than brains were busted for stealing the identities of legitimate hauling firm , setting up actual job and bag the cash , says Wired ’s Threat Level blog . But though the hackers operate for years out of the puff of their household , the master plan was sentence to recoil . The first part of the plan was simple — Nicholas Lakes and Viachelav Berkovich , two Russian immigrant , hacked the scummy - surety government - run Safersys.org , which lists approve secure hauling firms . They ’d go in and replace the phone number and address of a legitimate ship’s company . Posing as that company , they would take an order to deliver a loading , then subcontract the job to some other truck driver . Once the subcontractor delivered the goods , the client would pay Lakes and Berkovich directly , and they ’d go away with the hard cash . The poor subcontractor , the hardest - hit of the victims , would go to the legit party in search of defrayal . The legit company of grade bang nothing about the business deal . Even though the two Man ran this fraud for three twelvemonth , and raked in $ 500,000 , they should have jazz they ’d be catch eventually . The architectural plan was blemished in that it left too many mass scratching their head every single fourth dimension . Someone sooner or later on was bound to decipher the phone calls and track the paper trail back to the source . [ Threat Level ]
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