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The Evolving Face of Credit Card Scams

Posted by kdawson on from the caveat-clickor dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The 12 Angry Men have a followup to their piece on the cross-sell scam credit card companies have begun using. Their new article concerns another evolving scam being employed, where users are racking up huge fees and charges on cards that have never even been activated. The article goes deep into the standard way the scam plays out, as well as detailing some interesting history on how credit applications are processed, and where they are typically (and frighteningly) subject to tampering."

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  1. SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by moogs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    3. Re:SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. More Serious Attack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Dom media player files, these are spreading throughout the network. They are using the "fake"/6-7000 seed trick to move these up (And replicating their own torrents, just because they're such scumbags).

    Fake torrents are hardly new, there were the gay porn days of napster. But there is a plugin already developed to play these files it will split the community. Sites such as ISOhunt have a poor takedown policy so we won't simply be able to get the files removed, hopefully someone has a better solution but I suggest no one install the plugin because it will split the community and send noobs to spend money with these gangsters (they're hijacking piracy!)... Trackers should already have a system in place to download and test new releases, otherwise the first seeder might start getting sued... hopefully there is an elegant solution to the problem but I can't think of one.

  3. Re:Come on by 2.7182 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Thanks for noticing my pun. No one else seems to have.

  4. Blame the controllers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "... the system's motion-sensitive controller 'permits children to act out each of the many graphic torture scenes and murders.'..."

    Umm... no. The parents will be the ones permitting the children to do anything with ANY videogame. Also, it has an M rating... I thought stores weren't supposed to sell those games to folks under 17 years of age? The same as for R rated movies. How old do you have to be to buy a game rated AO anyway? Frickin' 25 or something?! I suppose that one year between 17 and 18 makes a HUUUGE difference on an adolescent's maturity level. *rolls eyes*

  5. Re:One big tick for ANZ by lena_10326 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My absence was pivotal to the moment. Such advice has since been reemphasised. :)
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