http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2009/Feb09/022309/022609-05.htm By Charlie Morasch Staff Writer Land Line Magazine February 26, 2009 Two Russian immigrants from Southern California have pleaded guilty to defrauding motor carriers out of at least $2.4 million through a double-brokering load scheme using the FMCSA’s SAFER Web site. Nicholas Lakes, also known as Dmitry Livshits, of Glendale, CA, and Viacheslav Berkovich, 34, of Los Angeles, both pleaded guilty to computer fraud and mail fraud in U.S. district court on Feb. 23. In early 2007, Lakes and Berkovich hacked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Safety and Fitness Electronic Records System, or SAFER, and registered their own trucking and brokerage companies under the names Cargoland Brokerage Inc., Progressive Trucking, Vega Trucking and Barkfelt Transport. The men then changed registration information, including e-mail addresses and phone numbers, for other truck and brokerage companies who already were registered in SAFER to “create the impression that the unrelated companies were affiliated with defendants’ companies,” the federal indictment states. Later, they posed as carriers on various Internet load boards, entered contracts with brokers to haul advertised loads, then double-brokered the loads to another carrier without telling the original load broker. Loads were booked, delivered and payments made to the defendants, though payments were never made to the companies who delivered the actual loads. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Fri Feb 27 2009 - 00:17:25 PST
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