DeTomaso Mailing List: December 98, Message #200

All,
  Came across this today. Basically what's happening it bogus charges are being
generated against randomly created CC numbers. The ones that are real, stick,
the ones that aren't don't. Charges are small ($20) and can go unnoticed. See
the web address for more details. Sounds like a real problem, but the odds are
you probably won't get hit. Just a heads up.

http://www.labmed.umn.edu/%7Ejohn/ccfraud.html

Dick Barkley

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> Introduction
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> In December of 1998 I discovered I'd been the victim of a credit card fraud. It had been in place for 4 months, but the small transactions went unnoticed.
> This document, distributed to the major net indexing engines, is a guide to others who may be experiencing the same fraud. The implications of this fraud
> seem, to me, to be considerable. It is a direct attack on how credit cards work.
> 
> A substantial number of credit card holders have been hit by this scam. I found recent postings on net newsgroups by people who'd been hit through the
> same vendors that hit me. When I called the fraud department at US Bank, I didn't get 3 words out before the officer there explained what was
> happening. He's getting several calls a day. Since I put this page up I've gotten messages from victims around the world, from across the US to
> Australia..........<snip>