Article: For sale on the web: your identity . . . for just 10p Russian mafia websites offer everything from lists of Scots' bank details to cash machine fraud kits Russian mafia websites offer everything from lists of Scots' bank details to cash machine fraud kits INTERNET: ORGANISED CRIME

THOUSANDS of Scots' personal details are being sold to the highest bidder on websites run by Russian organised crime gangs. A Sunday Herald investigation has uncovered a network of secret internet sites used to trade the identities of unsuspecting victims. Full details of their lives - including home addresses, dates of birth and credit card numbers - are changing hands for as little as 10 pence a time.

"This is big business. Every day criminal traders are using this network to sell in excess of GBP10,000 worth of private data that can be used as a tool kit to steal the subjects' identities, " said Jacques Erasmus, a former hacker turned security expert.

"Nobody knows exactly who runs the ...

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