Australian cops bust Romanian credit card thieves Australia's Federal Police (AFP) has triumphantly announced it has brought a gang of Romanian credit card fraudsters to heel, but not before the criminals purloined half a million credit card numbers from small Australian retailers. Detective superintendent Brad Marden, the AFP's national co-ordinator for cybercrime operations …
"Australia's Federal Police (AFP) has triumphantly announced it has brought a gang of Romanian credit card fraudsters to heel, but not before they purloined half a million credit card numbers from small Australian retailers."
Why are the AFP purloining credit card numbers from small Australian retailers? Are they not getting by on the proceeds from selling impounded drugs?
No, that is special wrestler spelling.
While at it, how the world changed. It was only 15 years ago Bulgarian and Romanian wrestlers got their daily bread through trivial classic "shake the retailer" physical racket. Fast forward 15 years and they do high tech crime. Woa... I thought that VIF (Bulgarian top sports school) and its Romanian equivalent did a pretty good job at converting every bit of grey matter into nice thick muscle. Guess not...
In any case, Aussies get whatever Christmas they deserve here - VIF (and its Romanian equivalent) were getting automatic recognition in the AU points immigration systems while all tech schools from Eastern Europe did not. Ditto for being an exemplary hormone assisted knucklehead (sorry, "power" sportsman from certain eastern European countries) versus technical people. The former got points, the latter did not.
"Australian financial institutions have made sure punters aren't out of pocket, refunding them for fraudulent purchases."
Watch for the next bank fee hike.
As far as retailers are concerned, many "understand" that it's sufficient to have cameras record offences taking place. Then they let their insurers deal with the losses. Rising insurance premiums?
NB: The upcoming CCC conference is entitled "Not my department.". Entirely relevant.
Please turn this Remote Desktop off on YOUR 'puter! Go to Control Panel, System, advanced, then advanced again and uncheck the box allowing remote use. Why this is on by default is a big mistake by Microsoft. They may know not to track you but are invited in to have a look at your computer's contents.
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