[PLUG-TALK] Card Fraud

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I'm doing this from memory and I haven't been on Hacker News
or hacker forms for a time but I do remember something called
a "RAM scraper" used by hackers, etc.

  Also, its very common for on line crooks to buy CC numbers in
bulk and wait a year or more before using them.

Blessings,
Paul W.

On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Rasmussen <michael at jamhome.us> writes:
>
> Michael> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 05:50:26AM +0000, Nathan Williams wrote:
> >> Personally, I'm considering going cash only, if only to see if it's
> >> even possible these days.
>
> Michael> It's very possible. Be prepared for numerically illiterate
> Michael> clerks.
>
> A week or two ago I was in a Fred Meyer shortly before closing time.
> The gentleman in front of me in line was in the process of purchasing
> about ~30 gift cards of some kind.  He paid cash, $1k in $20 bills and
> $500 in C-notes, $1500 total.  We waited through this quite lengthy
> transaction (maybe 10 minutes) as the cash was counted, the gift cards
> were validated and the many activation receipts were printed and fished
> into the grocery bag, and then found that the register was locked
> because there was too much cash in it.  We had to go to a different
> line.
>
> I have a few theories about what was going on.
>
>
> --
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> russell at personaltelco.net
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