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Re: [privacy] Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities
From: Ken Dyke <kdyke () keycomputerconsultants com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 06:46:53 -0600
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:17:59PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu (Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu) wrote:
On Tue, 09 May 2006 23:37:44 -0000, Fergie said:Personally, I think we *are* seeing it. Deluges of it. Every day, week, month, etc, ad nasueum.One of 3 possibilities:
IMHO the bottleneck is in converting a CC to goods. A friend works for a parcel service. My friend discovers one or two transhippment points a week. That is, packages arrive then get re-addressed to foriegn countries and sent back out. From a box full of expensive sport shoes to iPods. The parcel service's concern in this is that the shipping is paid for with stolen CC too. In the rush to move packages it takes something a bit out of the ordinary to get noticed. So, to make this number of discovers suggests a relatively high density. Or the scammers do not care about burning out their mules (unlikely). Now if the FBI was not so busy chasing child pron, music pirates and spying on peaceful protesters they could follow these shipments and nail the folks responsible for very large $$$ theft. -- Ken Dyke, 406.581.0495 I was using Free Open Source Software (FOSS) in 1969, but we did not call it that at the time. We called it "software". -- Jon "Maddog" Hall _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
Current thread:
- Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Dude VanWinkle (May 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Drsolly (May 10)
- Re: [privacy] Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Ken Dyke (May 10)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Alex Eckelberry (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Alex Eckelberry (May 09)
- Re: RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Axel Pettinger (May 10)
- Re: RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)