As Identity Theft Moves Online, Crime Rings Mimic Big Business

I always wonder how these people don't think they'll get caught. From As Identity Theft Moves Online, Crime Rings Mimic Big Business:

At 19 years old, Douglas Cade Havard was honing counterfeiting skills he learned in online chat rooms, making fake IDs in Texas for underage college students who wanted to drink alcohol.

By the age of 21, Mr. Havard had moved to England and parlayed those skills to a lucrative position at Carderplanet.com, one of the biggest multinational online networks trafficking in stolen personal data. Having reached a senior rank in the largely Russian and Eastern European organization, he was driving a $57,000 Mercedes and spending hundreds of dollars on champagne at clubs and casinos.

Now 22, Mr. Havard is in a Leeds prison cell, having pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and money laundering. The Carderplanet network has been shut down.

It sounds like he has a history of crime that goes way beyond counterfeiting:

In February 2002, Dallas police arrested the blue-eyed, brown-haired youth selling 10 gallons of an ecstasy-like party drug to an undercover cop, according to a report of the arrest. By that summer, aged 19, he faced a total of five felony charges, including drug-dealing, robbery at gunpoint and counterfeiting, court documents in Texas' Dallas and Collin counties show. He soon broke bail and fled the U.S.