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Using an automated tool, cybercriminals can validate stolen credit card data by making small transactions to non-profit charity organizations online. After logging into an IRC channel, crooks send a private message with all the credit info to a bot that will conduct a transaction with a charity website. The bot will then share the results to the criminal to confirm the credit care number’s legitimacy. For more on this story, click here:: Fraud Service Uses Charity Websites to Validate Stolen Credit Card Data
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A study has been shown that one out of every five grade school students have met an online stranger in real life. In fact over half of those met with the stranger by themselves! Talk to your kids about online safety and that meeting with strangers is dangerous, even though they have interacted online. For more on this topic, click here:: 1/5 of Grade Schoolers Met Up with Online Strangers in Real Life
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A Chicago cabbie has been charged with identity theft last week after stealing passengers’ credit cards and replacing them with lookalikes taken from other credit card victims. Omar Asemgar, the cabbie, carried a bag with at least 50 credit cards in various colors and from different banks in order to swap them out for new cards. A full story on this can be found here:: Cabbie Caught with Bag of More Than 50 Credit Cards, Prosecutors Say
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A former Coca-Cola employee in Pennsylvania filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of himself and over 700,000 current and former Coca-Cola employees alleging negligence and other charges. A company data breach at Coke allegedly allowed persons with Staten Island addresses to make illegal purchases under his name. For more details on this lawsuit, click here:: Staten Island residents used stolen Coca-Cola employee data to commit identity theft, suit alleges
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