ABC News: Online Identity Theft Ring Out of the ‘Shadows’
> June 29, 2006 ââ¬â The man who administered and co-founded what federal law enforcement officials described as one of the largest illegal online centers that trafficked in hundreds of thousands of stolen credit card numbers was sentenced Thursday to 32 months in prison.

The co-founder of shadowcrew (shad0w cr3w?) has been found guilty of trafficing more than 1.5 Million stolen credit/debit cards. And, yes, he did use phishing and spamming to get ahold of them.