Then the phone calls between him and his dad grew stranger. They would say things like you know that thing we talked about that we’re not allowed to talk about? Then his father told him he was going to visit some doctors and then the doctors will visit roman soon to explain the rest, and something about using uncle andre to create a miracle. The secret service thought maybe this was some kind of code for an escape plan. Around the same time, for some strange reason, the prosecutors all started getting banned from entering russia. Maybe roman’s father was banning them out of spite or something.

At this point roman finally started to try to get a plea deal worked out but it was too late. With the liberty reserve site in the hands of the secret service, they started going through the transactions that were in the database and this gave the secret service a lot more information about him. They found roman’s old accounts and added up the transactions and found he had over 15 million dollars in incoming transactions. They followed the accounts further and noticed some were recently active. As they investigated they found information that connected roman seleznev to be the person behind the 2pac.Cc website.

They’d post this frequently on carding world and a few other forums. The secret service started to build a case on this person. [music] They started examining the history of ncux by looking at other forums posts and their online activity. The secret service started finding a lot of clues about this person. In 2008 the hackers got in, stole thousands of credit cards, then gave it to fourteen different cashers around the world. These people would write the dumps to blank credit cards and then go to atms and just go through card after card, taking out as much money as they could until the atm was out of money.

The forum has been one of the most trusted and reliable carding forums in the world, but it has also had negative impacts, such as facilitating credit card fraud and other illegal activities. The detective started chatting with track2 over icq to learn more and he found out that track2.Name was where untrusted customers go to buy stolen cards. Then once you’re trusted or you pay a $1,000 registration fee, you can then be invited to bulba.Cc, a more elite carder site. The detective determined the websites were probably owned by the same person and he logged into the site and looked around. He found thousands of credit cards for sale here claiming to be 90% from the us with a 60% valid rate. He also found that in order to buy cards here you have to use liberty reserve to transfer the money.

Yeah, some feds in las vegas thought this was suspicious enough and accused roman of being the owner of carder.Su. Roman pleaded guilty to these charges which resulted in him having to pay 50 million dollars in restitution which was the same amount believed to have Escrow Service been made from selling cards on the website. Then once that was over, federal court in atlanta, georgia took a shot at roman, too. Federal prosecutors there claimed roman, along with 14 other people, hacked into rbs worldpay which is a payment processor in atlanta. [music] This one had a huge inventory of credit card dumps. When the home depot and neiman marcus were hit with their massive credit card breaches, those hackers were selling the dumps on 2pac.Cc and getting 50% of the sales.