baineschile1
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Re: DNS flaw..
never understood people that shopped online with stolen credit card numbers. if i buy a plasma...dont i have to have it "shipped somewhere"? |
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ISurfTooMuch
join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL
| You'd think that would be a deterrant, but people seem to still get away with it. And I'd imagine many stolen card numbers would be printed on counterfeit cards and used overseas. I doubt a shop in Moscow or Shanghai is going to care too much if a card is stolen as long as the transaction is approved. The shop owner is going to sell the goods for a profit, and they can always deny they knew the card was stolen if they're asked about it.
Still, I think the big money would be in selling the numbers. The seller gets their money, and the buyers use the cards until they're canceled. |
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morbo
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said by baineschile1 :
never understood people that shopped online with stolen credit card numbers. if i buy a plasma...dont i have to have it "shipped somewhere"?
there's no real enforcement out there for these smallish crimes. local police won't touch it and credit card companies prefer to write it off, as long as it's not too much.
the lawyers and effort would cost them more than it's worth.
sad but true. |
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haze_nme
join:2004-01-13
Tucson, AZ | reply to baineschile1
You can get away with using stolen card numbers for intangible things like memberships to sites, or for purchasing more domain names/hosts. |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
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said by baineschile1 :
never understood people that shopped online with stolen credit card numbers. if i buy a plasma...dont i have to have it "shipped somewhere"?
People will ship to other addresses and attempt to intercept the package. It happened to my grandma. She got a package with what she refers to as computer thing. Calls the shipper and the company and neither cared it wasn't hers and she didn't pay for it. (Maybe the companies all assumed it must have been a gift because no one reported fraud?) But a few days later some kid comes to her door and says he heard she got a package. She knowing there was no way this was possible, she told him he could have it if he calls UPS and get them to authorize her to give it to him. She never saw him again and after a few months (in case someone did want it back) she told me about it. It was a mediocre video card and I think I ended up putting in an aunt's computer. |
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