$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ THE NEW YORK SAFEHOUSE II ELITE $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ Introduces a unreleased file $ $ avaiable only on NYSHII Elite $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ Subject - Credit Card Scams $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ Written by --------The Line Breaker$ $ Research by -------The Code Cracker$ $ Interviews by -----Disk Master $ $ Addition Interviews by L.B. & C.C. $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Most people never dream that while their credit cards are securely tucked away in their wallets and purses- their accounts might are being used by others. Yet that's precisely what happens- and industry experts esimate losses from all credit card crime at approximately $1 billion a year. Some people are highly imaginative. Consider the man in Mobile- Ala.- who set up a bogus Save the Whale Found- ation. He went to local dept stores and asked for the carbon paper bet- ween charge slips- explaining that his children wanted them for tracing. They were the ideal size for little hands. The carbons gave him the account numbers he needed. He charged contributions to the Found- ation to those accounts and credited the same amounts to his MasterCard & Visa. In 10 days he stole $17-000. He later told the feds he could have taken more than $100-000 but didn't want to be greedy. (What a fool!) -------------------------------------- Since 1981 people have relied heavly on plastic. Relying on credit cards is dangerous. According to Pat Meyers a partner and vice president of the public relations firm of Jackson & Summers Associates Inc in Washington D.C. To cite a case in point- Oak Park Electronics of Raleigh- N.C.- recived several phone orders for televisions and video recorders. All were charged to the Visa Account of Jane Johnson & shipped to several NYC address. A 7th order- valued at $5-000 raised suspicions at the dealer. The store owners called in the FBI who discovere that Jane Johnson was a fake name for Fatima Bice Bey. Bice-Bey was convited of credit card fraud and is serving a jail sentence. Rocco Santarsiero and Diane McLaron got hold of some blank AMEX cards that had been stolen from the premises of the manufacturer - Emeloid Plastics Corp. The two embossed the cards with real names and the numbers from Authentic accounts. They used the cards to purchase housewares and cloth ing. At the time of their arrest- they were living in a posh condo in Scottsdale- Arizona. -------------------------------------- Stealing Black Gold (credit card #'s) is just as lucrative as stealing the cards themselves. The most lucrative use of black gold is embossing them on counterfeit cards. Those fakes may be altered versions of lost or stolen cards or they may be so-called white plastics or blanks- which require the aid collsive merchants. The retailer uses the imitation cards to write false sales slips for merchandise he gives to a friend. The sales slips are then sent to the bank. Counterfeit cards are traded among thieves at prices ranging from $50.00 to $400.00- and one card might ring up as much as $10-000 in phony pur- chases before the comsumer becomes aware of the fraud and complains. Black Gold is traded upon computer hackers for passwords and equipment for their use. -------------------------------------