SINGAPORE: A 32-year-old man who faces criminal charges in the United States on Monday admitted in a Singapore court to impersonating two men to deceive Amazon Web Services and Google for cloud computing services that he used to mine cryptocurrency.in the US in October 2019. He was unemployed when he committed the offences.Ho used personal and credit card information obtained from a Dark Web forum to cheat AWS and Google into providing cloud computing services worth about US$5.
Ho pleaded guilty on Monday to 11 charges, including offences under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act and cheating by personation. He is set to return to court next month for mitigation and sentencing.The court heard that in 2017, Ho forged US driving licences for others on a Darkweb forum that styled itself as"#1 Fraud Community".
Using Mr Merrill's personal information, Ho gained access to the developer's AMEX bank account and changed the email address associated with the account to a new email address with a similar name. The AWS account linked to Mr Merrill was suspended on Jan 27, 2018, after several failed attempts by the company to contact Ho by email to pay the outstanding bill.
Google suspended the account on Feb 23, 2018, after informing Ho that they were unable to process payment.
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