[ale] OT: Security code on Credit/Debit cards

[Jim Kinney]

Wherever you've been eating out, stop going and warn everyone you know and
alert the bank and home office if it's a chain restaurant. That's the most
likely place to loose sight of the card.

On Feb 19, 2010 6:56 PM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:

Got a question for you security and forensic types. My debit card was
once again cloned. As a routine I usually check my bank(s) online at
night and again in the morning. Last night all was good, this morning I
found that I had bought several Crackberrys and a lot of sportswear as
well as a surfboard. After spending about 6 hours trying to make sense
of it all, all but one company had held the orders as possible fraud.
These orders were done online and a few were well known named big box or
large shopping centre companies. The big named companies confirmed that
all credit info matched including the security code on the back of the
card. They also traced the orders back to an IP coming through NYC via
Roadrunner's Broadband Service. Ok my questions:

1. The number on the back of the card usually a 3 digit number, is that
on the magnetic strip?
2. Even with IP and MAC masquerading, is it possible to actually trace
it down to the perp?
3. Is there also a way to find where the card info was scanned?

Since this is my second time as a victim in less than a year, I would
really like to pursue it as far as I can go. Local PD just writes it
off, but if I could give them something solid, maybe they might act. I
have my suspicions, but posting them would probably make me look racist,
which I wasn't, but.... Also in all cases the same name was used address
and phone # for delivery. When I google the name (Joanne Salter) I found
one person who lives in Great Britain and is a movie production hair
stylist, and another on in West Fargo, ND. The address used is in Ulem,
MN and the phone number traced as an unlisted number somewhere in IN.
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