"NO LOSE" online gambler banged up

[anonamouse]

very interesting. fraud in one persons eyes is genius in anothers;

Broadfield computer hacker jailed for £46,000 fraud


Wednesday, December 05, 2012Crawley News


A COMPUTER hacker is back behind bars serving his longest sentence yet after fraudulently stealing more than £46,000 by using false identities.

William Peckover, formerly known as Alaistair Peckover, has been sentenced to three years in prison for breaching his serious crime prevention order (SCPO), and committing other offences.



The 23-year-old, from Sheppey Close, Broadfield, had pleaded guilty to two offences of obtaining unauthorised access to computers, two related offences of fraud by false representation where he gained more than £46,000, and four counts of breaching his SCPO.

His SCPO was renewed and the court ordered the destruction of the hard drive from his computer when he was sentenced on Thursday, November 29, at Brighton Crown Court.

However, the judge expressed his concern that another jail term will not deter him from offending again.

Judge John Tanzer said: "I believe that I will see you again in the future due to your gambling addiction and the temptation to use your computer skills to cheat, which will be hard to resist due to your character."

Peckover had already been convicted three times in three years of complex Internet-based hacking frauds against online betting companies.

Then in July this year he was served with Sussex Police's first-ever SCPO, lasting five years.

This prevented him from using any name other than his own, William Graeme Peckover, stopped him carrying more than £1,000 in cash at any time and restricted the number of bank accounts he could hold.

Police hoped these stringent conditions would stop him from offending again.

However, Peckover was arrested yet again in October.

He had assumed two new identities, using the names James Green and Stephen Chalk.

Using both names he opened multiple gambling accounts with online casinos, giving false addresses and e-mail accounts.

He then discovered a way to manipulate online games to guarantee no loss when playing, making more than £46,000 in a matter of weeks.

DCI Ali Eaton said: "We have done our job by identifying his continued offending and bringing him to justice, but what about the cure?

"Is this an addiction and illness or is it just greed? He has received a lengthy prison sentence, his longest yet, but we wonder what else can be done to stop his persistent and apparently compulsive criminal behaviour."

In June 2009 Peckover was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months, after admitting hacking into the systems of an online spread betting company to obtain £39,000.

In June the following year he was sentenced to 20 months in jail after pleading guilty to similar frauds from which he obtained thousands of pounds and bought a Porsche sports car, expensive watches and £30,000 of gold bullion.

Then, last year, he was sentenced to 27 months in imprisonment for further frauds against online betting companies in which he obtained more than £33,000, again using false identities.




shame he got banged up so often, could've taken millions. if you discover a "no lose" system is that really fraud? or has the site software been shown to be fucked?

[mr lugsy]

his system seems rather flawed by the obvious ease in which he was brought to justice multiple times

[anonamouse]

i reckon it's just the sites he targeted being sore losers... he would only need different names if they kept on banning him. i doubt if any of the sites let it be known to shareholders that their software was shite.

[GaryChandler]

Yeah sounds like he was actually hacking into the sites or something similar, i doubt it was a "no lose" system that can be done without doing something dodgey...

[anonamouse]

back in the day on Betfair casino you could spin the reels, then close the window before the last reel stopped if it was a loser and your balance would stay the same, that didn't last long tho, now they deduct your stake, then spin.

[GaryChandler]

Make much from it?