Twenty three year old Jeremiah Joseph Mondello, a not so typical guy from Eugene, Oregon, is going to find himself locked up behind bars in a place where one has to be careful when picking up the soap. Mr. Mondello, or simply M, was found guilty of purveying pirated software worth $1 million by a district court.
M stole identities from hapless innocent victims using a keylogger, which he used to set up 'online payment accounts'. The online accounts were used for his 40 surreal identities he used to flog pirated software over thousands of different online auctions. M's reign of debilitating terror lasted from December 2005 to October 2007.
Apparently, the case of M was a small part of the US Department of Justice's initiative to bring down evildoers selling pirated copies of anything under the sun over Ebay and Paypal. M's case was resolved by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Cyber Crimes Center and offices in Seattle, Portland, and Medford, which are all towns in Oregon housing tons of more potential Ms. Apparently, the SIA (Software and Information Industry Association) helped nose the investigators down to the right cellar.
'This was a very sophisticated copyright infringement case and we appreciate the investigative assistance of the Software and Information Industry Association and Immigration and Customs Enforcement,' spoke an enthralled US attorney named Karin J. Immergut, whose German family name translates to Alwaysgood. X |