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US scammer bought, resold nearly 27, 000 credit card numbers (fwd)
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 18:26:32 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h1Yw13itwyTojTcXDJntFSkMh_jg A US man pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraudulently obtaining nearly 27,000 credit card numbers and selling them on to other scammers, who used them to make purchases. Juan Javier Cardenas, 45, admitted at a plea hearing in a district court in Florida that he had "purchased stolen credit card information from a co-conspirator" using the Internet, a statement from the US Department of Justice said. Cardenas then used the Internet to resell the credit card information to third parties who made fraudulent credit card purchases. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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