US scammer bought, resold nearly 27, 000 credit card numbers (fwd)

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

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