The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday heard that the stolen credit card information issued by European, American banks and Latin America are taken from a laptop allegedly belonging to musicians, Azeez Fashola known as Naira Marley.
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) forensics, Mr Justice Nicholas Nuru Oweibo Buhari said that some credit card information belonging to four people in the United Kingdom (UK) is one of Nicole Louise.
Buhari testified as the first prosecution witness in the alleged EFCC Marley card fraud trial that began on Tuesday.
The witness, who led evidence by EFCC counsel Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, alleged that apart from the stolen information, visit the site of history recovered from the device show that the five most visited sites dealt with the buying and selling stolen credit card information.
Buhari said: "During the analysis, the cache files and history files revealed that the most frequently visited sites by computer users including arder007.org, Zuni.sa, nationwidecheckbalance.co.uk, ferunshop.net AMD cocoa.co.uk."
"Analysis of the site revealed that the web 1 is where the card information stolen for sale to the intention of fraud, web 2 is for a stolen credit card specifically for the UK, the web 3 is an online site that is designed for cardholders UK to check their balance no matter where they are in worldwide, the web 4 is dark web means an underground tunnel on the internet where stolen credit card information sold and traded, the web 5 is an online shopping center where members are given discounts for shopping from certain stores. "
He said the stolen credit card information with a special status that allows transactions up to $ 12,000 without a pin or a physical card was found in a file named select 101.txt BIN and .txt.
The witness added: "For the record file, found two main file named .txt which contains about four credit card information belonging to four different personalities in the UK including one of Nicole Louise."
"The second file named BIN101.txt been containing the Bank Identification Number of European, American banks and Latin America.
"When we ran BIN code search for the first six digits of the card, it reveals their Visa cards issued by the Bank Barclay, Sandander UK plc."
Buhari testify that analysis allows the team to identify the "certain banks in the US, Europe and Asia to the particularities particular, it is the bank that they issue credit cards without pin based on the confidence level is high, they allow transactions up to $ 12,000 in a swipe at the post.
"The cards are issued by banks whose cards are not required. All you need to carry out the transaction is the card number and CVV numbers. "According to him, Apps suspect that most used by people with illegal transactions on the Internet is found on a laptop.
He said, "We analyze the applications installed on the laptop and we found two application that enables the computer owner to determine the bank server as the identity and location, IP disappeared and TOR browser.
"TOR Browser sometimes called onion. Most criminals to cover their tracks with different layers like an onion to use this application to make it virtually impossible for the tracker to track their location.
"Disappeared IP is a virtual private network (VPN) that provides that the actual computer and use your location can not be identified. It also gives users the ability to change their location. "
The court further heard that the administrator account on a laptop analysis revealed that the admin is one Naira Marley and the account linked to his iCloud account.
During the trial, Oyedepo tendered a request for analysis of the Apple Mac book Pro laptop, iPhone allegedly seized from the accused and the forensic laboratory report prepared by Mr Buhari.
Oweibo Justice delayed until tomorrow for the cross-examination of witnesses.
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