
“In addition to being a talented ID forger, Celtic was a Secret Service agent. 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.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/open-market/
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