I agree. Mary is a good resource, I've met her and she's pretty sharp. There have been times where I've had to "shop" a case around to the various agencies to get attention. Good bets are the FBI, Secret Service, the locals, or even right to the source: The US Attorney's office. If you've got damages and decent evidence, then you usually can get a case going. At 06:43 PM 7/9/02 -0700, Greg Reber wrote: >Jonathon - try Mary Kimura, Infragard coordinator for the San Francisco FBI >office. > >-greg > >The information in this email is likely confidential and may be legally >privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by >anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any >disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken >in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jonathan A. Zdziarski [mailto:jonathanat_private] >Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:24 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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