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A gang of carders -- they're the mean hackers who steal your credit card information online -- came up with a pretty creative way to spot federal law enforcement agents embedded in their networks: forced orgies. "Anyone who wanted in with [Indian cyber criminal Vikas Yadav] would have to have three-way sex, either with other men or women, but Vikas had to be involved and he would record it all and save the recordings so he could watch it on his big flatscreen TV," a police detective in Georgia recently told the Athens Banner-Herald.

First of all, that's kind of weird. Second of all, what if the Feds are into that kind of thing? According to Wired's Kim Zetter, however, it seemed to be a pretty successful strategy. Yadav enjoyed a five-year long crime spree, stuffing trucks full of flat screen televisions, before he was sentenced to a year in prison and deported back to his home country.

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