Credit Card Thieves Flood Wikimedia With Pennies

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Brian Krebs:

[snip]

The Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of the free online
encyclopedia Wikipedia and other open-source projects, recently increased
the minimum amount it will accept in donations after scammers apparently
began testing the validity of stolen credit cards by sending a series of
1-cent "donations" to the group.

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More:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/11/credit_card_thieves_targ
et_wik.html

- - ferg

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