Re: Stolen Card Purchases

["Bill Barrett" <bill_barrett () uhaul com>]

I didnt see anybody else suggest this but you may want to try contacting
the local postal inspector. They may have an interest in this case if it
in any way involves shipping stolen goods throught the mail or the theft
of mail for credit card information.  I have found that often they are
more willing to look into these kind of cases where small dollar amounts
are involved.

-WTB
> Thanks for all the emails I received.  Just to make a few points of
> clarification in regards to our specific situation...
>
> - The credit cards being used were not stolen on the Internet, as not
> all of the cardholders involved in these related incidents had made
> purchases on the Internet.
>
> - The person or persons using these stolen cards had all the correct
> information (such as address and even phone number, which is how we were
> able to contact each cardholder).
>
> - We traced at least one of these incidents back through some proxies to
> a residential DSL line in the US, and I'm sure the Internet provider
> could furnish whomever [under subpoena] with name and address.
>
> I'm going to contact a few of the people who emailed me, but it sounds
> like from the other half of the emails I received, very few law
> enforcement agencies are interested in making arrests these days.  If
> this is the case, I'm wondering what reporting this to the media would
> do.  A story about how the government lets theifs run free sounds like
> it'd be enough to get some government organizations to shape up.


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