How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_hackerville_romania/all/1
Online thievery as a ticket to the good life spread from the early pioneers to scores of young men, infecting Râmnicu Vâlcea’s social fabric. The con artists were the ones with the nice cars and fancy clothes—the local kids made good. And just as in Silicon Valley, the clustering of operations in one place made it that much easier for more to get started.