Gary Kelly and Craig Gorton stole credit card details, as well as names and addresses in a phishing email scam between 2017 and 2019. Both men sold the data for £140million in cryptocurrency
Two men who pretended to be Netflix, Spotify and Apple to steal people’s details and sell them on for millions of pounds worth of cryptocurrency have been sentenced.
Gary Kelly and Craig Gorton stole credit card details, as well as names and addresses in a phishing email scam between 2017 and 2019.
They would impersonate the companies and then redirect people to enter their details on a bogus website, reports the Liverpool Echo.
It’s estimated that they earned more than £140,000 in cryptocurrency by then selling off these details online.
Ian Whitehurst, prosecuting, said police analysis of the computers used by the pair found details for more than 64,000 credit cards and 24,000 Apple IDs were recovered and safeguarded.
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Michael James, defending Kelly, said his client had fallen back into crime after a previous jail stint for fraud almost ten years ago.
He said Kelly, who is from Liverpool, viewed the scheme as a way of making money to support his family but now deeply regretted it.
Mr James said: “He could see no way of supporting his family and himself at that point. He then turned to the only thing he knew.
“That is not an…
