This type of offense falls under Title 18 Sec 1030 under US federal code as Fraud and related activity in connection with computers. This Section covers Credit Card fraud and related activity. The key to receiving LE support is the monetary value of the offense, the time duration of the activity and Identification of the source. Since this is a Federal offense, if you have all of your evidence together you should be able to contact an FBI field office and get some resolve. The usual threshold of this offense is a monetary value of $5,000 US dollars within a one year duration. If this commerce occurred over state and national lines, you may be able to contact the Department of customs. They deal with issue of this nature along with Software Piracy and other such offenses. I would suggest doing some homework on your states code and how they deal with such infractions. If you have this information in hand when contacting a LE agency they will be more receptive. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan A. Zdziarski [mailto:jonathanat_private] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:24 PM To: incidentsat_private Subject: Stolen Card Purchases 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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