Cubby

IRL Name: 
Mark Caparelli
Biography: 

Mark Caparelli is one of the carders who was arrested in a multi-state FBI sting targeting credit card fraud and other services that could facilitate carding activity. (International Cyber Crime Takedown 2012). According to a two-year FBI Undercover Carding Operation report, "he engaged in a so-called “Apple call-in” scheme in which he used stolen credit cards and social engineering skills to fraudulently obtain replacement products from Apple Inc., which he then resold for profit.The scheme involved Caparelli obtaining serial numbers of Apple products he had not bought. He would then call Apple with the serial number, claim the product was defective, arrange for a replacement product to be sent to an address he designated, and give Apple a stolen credit card number to charge if he failed to return the purportedly defective product."

Facts

He sold and shipped four iPhone 4 cell phones that he had stolen through the Apple call-in scheme to an individual whom he believed to be a fellow-carder, but who, in fact, was an undercover FBI agent.

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