Creator Of “OnlyFake” Pleads Guilty To Selling More Than 10K Digital Fake ID Docs
TL;DR
Yuri Nazarenko pleaded guilty to operating OnlyFake, a website that sold over 10,000 fake digital IDs, including U.S. and international documents, generating hundreds of thousands in cryptocurrency revenue.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Ukrainian national Yuri Nazarenko, 27, has been charged and pled guilty for his role in operating the website “OnlyFake,” which sold fake photos of identification documents such as passports and driver’s licenses. OnlyFake allowed its customers to generate fake U.S. identification documents, including digital versions of driver’s licenses for each of the fifty states, U.S. passports and passport cards, and Social Security cards. OnlyFake also offered customers the ability to generate fake digital versions of identification documents of various other countries, including passports for approximately 56 countries other than the U.S. Its customers paid the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars using cryptocurrency. The case is being prosecuted by the DoJ Office’s Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit. News Release