[102537] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A couple or advanced references...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Feb 19 04:55:42 2008
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:06:14 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: Paul Ferguson <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E8246AAA-AC28-4C1D-B262-739659CCED1E@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>
> On 19 feb 2008, at 7:27, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>
> >According to the FTC, total consumer fraud losses totaled $1.2
> >billion, with the average monetary loss for an individual at
> >$349.
>
> >Credit card fraud was the most common form of reported identity
> >theft at 23 percent,
>
> In many countries in Europe, people pay with debit cards that have a
> PIN number. You need to both copy the magnetic strip on the card and
> obtain the PIN to get at someone's money. And that's 1990s, if not
> 1980s, technology.
And defrauding that is now a bulk produced scam - companies in .asia
mass-producing bar scanning and key input devices customised for various
ATM models.
Adrian
