CRIM 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Payment Terminal, Dumpster Diving, The Home Depot

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 380
• Professor: Richard Frank

Document Summary

Crim 380 - lecture 10 - carding, money laundering. How to obtain thousands of credit cards. Credit card terminal (2012) - south carolina tax department. 3. 6 million tax returns filed since 1998. Hackers undered home depot computer systems through hacked vendor. Went down to - as long as sh. 50. Valid rate dropped, a lot of cards cancelled/useless. Expense of retiring card may not be worth incurring until somebody starts misusing it. To specialize, they must cooperate thus find each other. Carding forums - area where ppl discuss credit cards sale, theft, hacking, use. Carding forum from 2002 to october 2004. Global criminal organization that had thousands of members. Production & sale of false identification documents. First to bring together sellers & buyers to. Reviewers - reviewed stolen info for quality. To become member, existing member must bring you in & 4 others must vouch for you. Was able to turn one shadowcrew moderator. Set up new secure gateway into shadowcrew.