$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia
Summary: The U.S. government placed a $10 million bounty on Denis Kulkov, a 43-year-old Russian who ran Try2Check, a stolen-card validation service that processed over a million transactions a month at 20 cents each and earned him at least $18 million. On May 3, the Secret Service and DOJ seized Try2Check's domains and prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York unsealed an indictment naming Kulkov of Samara, Russia.
Bottom line: Try2Check was the official card-checking service for Vault Market, Unicc, and Joker's Stash, so its takedown touches the refund and dispute machinery those shops relied on. The bounty exists because Kulkov remains in Russia, where law enforcement cannot reach him unless he leaves.
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