The Secret Service Agent Who Collared Cybercrooks by Selling Them Fake IDs | Threat Level | Wired.com

The Secret Service Agent Who Collared Cybercrooks by Selling Them Fake IDs | Threat Level | Wired.com: The government calls it “Operation Open Market,” a four-year investigation resulting, so far, in four federal grand jury indictments against 55 defendants in 10 countries, facing a cumulative millennium of prison time. What many of those alleged scammers, carders, thieves, and racketeers have in common is one simple mistake: They bought their high-quality fake IDs from a sophisticated driver’s license counterfeiting factory secretly established, owned, and operated by the United States Secret Service.