eBay hacker Nicolae Popescu sought by FBI and Interpol

Romanian scammer Nicolae Popescu and his cybercriminal group are behind the eBay car fraud scheme and are now wanted by the U.S. authorities.

Six Romanian and an Albanian were indicted in the United States for wire fraud and money laundering using several websites, including eBay and Cars.com, U.S. prosecutors announced on Thursday. The fraudsters, now fugitives, were issued internationally wanted poster by Interpol and FBI.

The gang have been described as “masters of illusion” because they convinced people to pay for cars that were actually nonexistent.

Nicolae Popescu, head of online car-selling imposters!!!
One of the six Romanian , 33-year-old Nicolae Popescu, is believed to be the leader of the cybercriminals who posted fictitious car-selling announcements on online commerce sites, including eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500), Cars.com, AutoTrader.com and CycleTrader.com.

The auctions referred to valued goods, including cars, motorcycles and boats. “The scammers sent their buyers counterfeit certificates of authenticity and fake identities to make scheme more convincing and also invented transactions with car dealers to lure the victims,” said FBI Assistant Director, George Venizelos.

“Popescu and his co-conspirators were masters of illusion, but they can’t escape their ultimate reality. With the help of our law enforcement partners at home and abroad, we will bring them to justice,” added Venizelos.

U.S. prosecutors say the group stole from site users over three million dollars in the period 2011-2012. “Using false documents and fake websites, Nicolae Popescu and the other members of his group managed form overseas to steal from the pockets of the American workers who wanted to buy cars,” said federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, Loretta Lynch. “They thought their distance will insulate them from law enforcement investigation, but they were wrong”, she added.
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BBC reports that Romania has earned increasing notoriety as a hub for cybercrime. Tech magazine Wired published an article about a Romanian city dubbed “Hackerville” by locals – where cybercriminals are said to learn their craft at an early age. The settlement in question is in fact the city of Ramnicu Valcea which is located in Valcea County in central-southern Romania.

2010 escape: erroneously released by Romanian authorities before sentence!!!
In 2010, Nicolae Popescu of Alexandria, Teleorman, was mistakenly released from a Valcea court in southern Romania just minutes before the judge ruling. He went quietly away because his detainment ordinance…expired.

He was part of a “group of 34” taken into custody on multiple charges including false information, qualified scams with serious consequences, money laundering, computer fraud, initiation, formation, membership and support of organized crime.

Popescu managed to avoid the law not because of an elaborate escape, but after finding out that the order of detention issued on his name just…expired. So he left from under the police nose, although the court was about to decide over his sentence. Furthermore the guards were even more preoccupied with banning the journalists from snapping photos of the convicts than watching over them.

After the judges sentenced Nicolae Popescu and other 33 to preventive detention, of course that the “freshly released hacker”… was nowhere to be found for incarceration, therefore he was placed on a national wanted list.