Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

An identity thief tells all

Opinion
Jul 5, 20061 min

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Want to know how identity thieves work?

The New York Times heads to a Rome, New York, prison and talks with one of the more famous, 22-year-old Shiva Brent Sharma.

Sharma averaged about $20,000 a day phishing from his parents’ Queens, N.Y., basement: “I pretty much stuck with AOL because I knew AOL is most likely people new to the Internet.”

Check out how he did it.

Via The New York Times