Web fraud mastermind fails to get sentence cut
Friday 23rd December 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
Nicholas Webber has served eight months of his five-year sentence. (Picture by Central News)
AN ISLANDER convicted of masterminding a £12m. bank fraud through an internet web crime forum has lost an appeal to have his sentence reduced, his father has said.
Nicholas Webber’s five-year-sentence will stand after his application was dismissed.
So far he has served eight months in the young offenders’ wing at Belmarsh Prison.
Webber was convicted after it was discovered he was responsible for running GhostMarket.net, which specialised in online fraud including bank account hacking, viruses, using stolen credit cards on eBay, wire cash and call phone sex lines, between 2009 and 2010.
His father, Tony, said he was hoping the appeal would have been successful due to the fact that Nicholas was 17 at the time of the offences.
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Should have increased his sentence to 10 years the thieving scumbag. What difference does it make if he was only 17 at the time ? Do your bird lad !
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Cheeky beggar. £12m says the sentence should stand. Or is Tony Webber going to pay it back?
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Bit of a stiff sentance for a non violent crime commited by someone so young.
He will learn that if you want to commit bank fraud with minimum risk first own a bank.
Ask J P Morgan, M F Global Goldman Sachs etc. Now these guys have years of experience as to how it should be done!
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Typical case of Parents have no idea what their kids are up to!
Bet this started when offender was a youngster
Make sure your children are NOT in their bedroom, but where all family can view computer
Keep an eye on mobile phone bills too
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Shame he wasn’t a bank “fat cat” director or greedy shareholder. He would have got away with this from the start.
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Serve him right.. if you cant do the time.. dont do the crime ! I blame the parents.. sentence too light in the first place.. after 5 years he still has the £12m no doubt.. hidden away somewhere.. I cant rememember if it was ever recovered.
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Might he earn a pardon by offering to hack into Howard’s bank account?
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Howard got away with it, you don’t hear him appealing against that, do you.
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Why blame the parents, at 17 I think you know right from wrong!
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Lack of parental guidance????
http://www.thisisguernsey.com/latest/2004/10/18/the-worst-two-years-of-my-life-webber/
I wonder if the dedicated public servant, TW, regrets his time spent chasing around the globe?
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What has age got to do with it? He is a thoroughly nasty piece of work; Webber senior bleats on about his son having a disrupted childhood, loads of kids’ upbringing is far from idyllic but they don’t get their revenge by indulging in amateur hacking fests.
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