Stolen Card Purchases

From: Jonathan A. Zdziarski (jonathanat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 17:24:08 PDT

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    We've seen a significant increase in the number of stolen credit card
    purchase [attempts] made on our website recently, and I'm wondering if
    anyone has had very good experience in convincing any legal arm to take
    action.  We have sent three related incidents to the Secret Service, who
    will not touch it unless there's at least $50,000 involved.
    Unfortunately, most local law enforcement agencies are impotent at such
    issues.  We traced the first attempt back through an open proxy where
    the administrator even sent us enough information to track him back to a
    residential DSL line, but nobody's willing to put in even a little work
    to go and subpoena the data and make an arrest.
    
    We're getting pretty sick of having to feel "paranoid" when customers
    purchase our products, so I'm hoping some of you may have had more luck
    than I have thus far in dealing with such issues.  Any creative comments
    would be appreciated.
    
    Jonathan A. Zdziarski
    President
    Network Dweebs Corporation
    http://www.networkdweebs.com
    
    
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