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Roman Seleznev: Did the Punishment Fit the Crime?

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Roman's Cyber Crimes: The Turning Point

Roman Selesnav was known to the underground as Ancox, a transliteration for the Russian word for cycle. He started hacking not in 2007 as he claimed but five years earlier in 2002. Back then he was stealing a wealth of personal information from innocent people. By 2005 he'd develop a speciality in credit cards. The Secret Service had it on good evidence that the individual known as Ancox was in fact Roman Selesnav of Vladivostok. But remarkably he was the one with the Trump card.

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