Gateline.net Was Key Rogue Pharma Processor
Summary: Krebs reports that Gateline.net, the credit card processor behind the Oneliya LLC in Moscow, processed tens of thousands of customer transactions for the SpamIt and Rx-Promotion rogue pharmacy programs over a four-year period. Leaked chat logs seized by Russian investigators in 2011 show more than 205 conversations between SpamIt co-owner Dmitry Stupin and a Gateline administrator nicknamed "Shaman," who took roughly an 8 percent cut of all SpamIt pharmacy sales and was sometimes paid tens of thousands of dollars per week.
Why it matters: A payment processor sitting between spam campaigns and the card networks handled the money for both major rogue pharmacy programs, and its administrator was flagging suspected MasterCard undercover buyers by name to the spam operation. The FSB's 2011 inquiry into Oneliya went nowhere publicly, and Shaman's full identity remains unknown.
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