An FBI Agent's 3 Years Undercover With Identity Thieves

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @08:25AM from the doing-my-best-nelson-laugh dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld offers the inside story of how FBI Supervisory Special Agent J. Keith Mularski, aka Master Splynter, penetrated and took over DarkMarket.ws, the infamous underground carding board hacked by Max Butler and later transformed by Mularski into an FBI sting operation. The three-year tour sent Mularski deeper into the world of online computer fraud than any FBI agent before, resulting in 59 arrests and preventing an estimated $70 million in bank fraud before the FBI pulled the plug on the operation in October."

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Re:Reloadable cards. by kb9vcr · 2009-01-21 11:02 · Score: 5, Informative

For online purchases one-use card numbers already are available.
Bank of America has them, it's called 'Shopsafe' and it's a free feature if you have a card with them. I've used it for every web purchase now for years and it works great. You set your limit & expiration date, generate a number and your set. Easy and it limits your exposure.
(MBNA developed shopsafe and then Bank of America got it when they bought them out. Probably other companies have something similar)