Posted on 06/12/2004 7:52:11 AM PDT by ijcr
The other way around...as the piece had no name to cite and as it was posted from an AP article, I cited him/her as the poster in the comments box.
It was a Federal crime so he does his time at a Club Fed.
Thanks for your answer, ijcr. I thought they were picking up posts from FR. My mistake.
The bank should be forced to make restitution to any victims of the scam
There was more to this scam than just his little "netfill" stuff. I had my info stolen by this MF. Soon after he was caught, the account he had gotten info on had the address changed and thousands of dollars charged to it.
It took years to get rid of the problems this piece of s4!t left me with. I hope he ends up as bubba's girlfriend.
Class action lawsuit material. The only ones to benefit will be the attorneys
Firstly, id theft really screws up one's life and I sympathise with your having to deal with the aftermath.
What really is galling, is that the very institutions that
come down on folks are the ones selling the information in the first place.
I hate to inform you but according to the BOP he is in the lowest security Federal prison in LA.
I had three odd chargest totalling about $100 on my card a couple years ago. The entry on the statement gave a phone number to call, but the number just gave a recording that said the company handled billing for a number of companies and gave a few examples. I successfully got he charges reversed, but I wonder if one of those scammer people bit me (it's also conceivable that the charges were legit and that some company that was billing me for service changed its billing company. But since nobody squawked at having the charges reversed, I have no particular reason to believe that to be the case.)
Ooops....
I meant to include a link to this old thread on Taves.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1152362/posts
Apparently there are 900,000 suckers born every minute and 99.9% of them are horny men.
Actually San Francisco is located in the central part of California. I can't believe a bank would sell this information for $5,000.
The deal was the Bank sold the card numbers to be included in a database the company was supposed to set up to prevent fraud and the card numbers included clean cards and many cards that were tagged with fraud or excessive chargebacks.
The database was supposed to block out the customers who were causing the fraud or chargebacks and they ended up charging the cards $10 for several months.
There was another company involved called Heartland Card Systems (Now Heartland Payment Systems) who got hosed big time.
What the article doesn't say is that the two banks involved ended up refunding all the customers so the only people hurt were the two Banks !
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