The FBI of USA jointly with the Bulgarian GDBOP's (Division for Combating Organized Crime's) 'Computer Crimes Department' recently terminated a global cyber-crime operation, published softpedia.com dated December 10, 2011.
Bulgaria's Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that the cyber-crime perpetrators dispatched phishing e-mails supposedly from prominent American banking institutions that led recipients onto phony Internet-banking sites solely for theft of their account user-ids and passwords. Pcworld.com reported this on December 12, 2011. And while the names of the criminals weren't articulated, they were reportedly aged 28-36 years.
Moreover, the collected material after the theft was utilized for moving funds from the victims' accounts with banks. As per investigators, the alleged culprits, three in number, utilized Internet-payment services like paypal.com, libertyreserve.com, moneybookers.com, webmoney.ru, amongst others.
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