Sorry if this is a duplicate, but it's just too good to pass by: Brett Shannon Johnson is a credit card and identity thief, a well-known figure in the online carding community who went by the nickname Gollumfun. He worked undercover for ten months in the US Secret Service agency's Columbia, SC, office helping catch other card thieves. Then last year agents discovered he was two timing them. A federal judge last week ordered him to serve six years in prison, and to pay $300,000 in restitution. The case sheds light on some of the risks and ethical trade offs involved in using criminals as informants. While working for the agency, Johnson purchased several computers using stolen credit-card numbers and filed more than a hundred fraudulent tax returns in other names. He says he got the numbers and names while working on a laptop in the Secret Service office. Although everything he did on the computer was recorded with screenshots and a keylogger, he says agents were often distracted by other things and only reviewed portions of the audit trail he advised them to review.
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