Romanian phisher pleads guilty

to steal more than £400,000 from over 7,000 customers of PayPal, Citibank and other financial institutions. In May, authorities in the US and Romania arrested and charged 38 people suspected of running an international phishing gang. The 26-year Sergiu Popa led victims to bogus websites and tricked them into revealing their PIN codes and other personal information. He was also offering phishing kits for sale... [read full story]