Category: Credit Card Crime

The Development Of Credit Card Popularity

7 August, 2010 (23:03) | Credit Card Crime | No comments

The contemporary market is full of different products and services. However, you are not always able to get them for cash. The good idea is to have one more financial instrument to make the purchases as there might be different situations and problems. The cashless financial instruments have already become the inseparable part of our [...]

Get Yourself A Checking Account – There’s No Reason Not To!

17 July, 2010 (04:40) | Credit Card Crime | No comments

Strange because it may seem, checking credit Savings Loans accounts are usually nothing brand new since the ancient Romans employed these within More than 200 B . c .. At that time an individual might visit a product owner and make a buy. Whenever he realized exactly what quantity this individual will have to purchase [...]

Hackers Steal Credit Card Info From Wyndham Hotel Computer Systems

1 April, 2010 (12:38) | Credit Card Crime, Hacked | No comments

I’m beginning to wonder if some of these companies will ever learn their lesson. It seems like every week we are hearing about another security breach at some big corporation that has resulted in the theft of personal information from customer databases.
A recent breach involving systems used by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts was apparently in [...]

International Credit Card Counterfeit Organization Brought Down

31 March, 2010 (16:07) | Credit Card Crime | No comments

OK, so what’s up with people from Nigeria? They are already legendary for their infamous “419 scams,” which get their name from the section of the Nigerian penal code that deal with such crimes. Back in February a member of a group of Nigerian immigrants in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area plead guilty to conspiracy to [...]

Corrections Officers On The Other Side of The Bars

1 August, 2007 (21:35) | Credit Card Crime, Identity Theft | No comments

It appears that two low-life corrections officers in Maryland demonstrated yet another innovative way to steal identities.
The Baltimore corrections officers were stealing credit cards belonging to the prisoners at Baltimore’s central lock-up! Look ma, another case of identity theft that does not involve computers or the Internet!
The crooked corrections officers apparently had a grand [...]

Parasite PIN Pad Scam In Canada

1 July, 2007 (14:09) | Credit Card Crime, Scams | No comments

It’s so convenient to make purchases these days. Walk into the store, make your selection and then go to the cashier and “swipe” your debit card, punch in your PIN and be on your way. Who needs to carry cash?
I’m not advocating an end to debit or credit cards — heck, I use them all [...]

Credit Card Numbers Stolen By Restaurant Servers

26 June, 2007 (21:16) | Credit Card Crime | No comments

This story from Georgia nicely illustrates a point I made in an earlier post about how thieves obtain personal and financial information from consumers in order to commit crimes.
In this particular case, two servers who worked at an Applebee’s restaurant were gathering credit card numbers and providing them to another person who was using the credit card [...]