Credit Card Fraud Tips

Author: Ira
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:36 am
Post subject: Militant offers tips on credit card fraud

December 14, Washington Post — In sign of new threat, militant offers tips on credit card fraud. Imam Samudra, who was charged with engineering the devastating Bali nightclub bombings two years ago, published a jailhouse autobiography recently on the bombing, and tucked into the back of the 280−page book is a chapter titled "Hacking, Why Not?" There, Samudra urges fellow Muslim radicals to take the holy war into cyberspace by attacking U.S. computers, with the particular aim of committing credit card fraud, called "carding." The chapter then provides an outline on how to get started. The primer on carding is rudimentary, according to U.S. and Indonesian cybercrime experts, but they said the chapter provides a rare glimpse into the mounting threat posed by terrorists using Internet fraud to finance their operations. "The worry is that an army of people doing cybercrime could raise a great deal of money for other activities that terrorists are carrying out," said Alan Paller, research director of the Sans Institute, a U.S. Internet−security training company. Internet crime experts said Samudra's book seems unprecedented as a tool for recruiting radical Muslims into a campaign of online fraud and building networks of fundraisers. "This is exactly the kind of advice you would give someone who wanted to get started in cybercrime," said Paller.

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washingtonpost.com/wp−dyn/articles/A62095−2004Dec_13.html

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Ira

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