Friday, March 30, 2012

British Scam Nets Huge iTunes Royalties from Unknown Artists

You’ve got to hand it to criminals -- sometimes, the tricks they come up with to dupe folks out of money is just amazingly clever. For example, the case of a gang of 11 in England who used stolen credit cards to buy their own unknown music from iTunes and Amazon and score big on royalty payments.

BBC News England is reporting that a clever scam involving stolen credit cards and royalty payments has been shut down after a gang of 11 young men from Kent, Derby, Birmingham and Wolverhamption were finally caught.

According to the report, the 24-year-old ringleader of the group purchased 24 identical laptops, then obtained

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