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