Anyone have any idea whether this could have been prevented if banks in the US required PIN to process a transaction? Would fraudulent transactions go down significantly if stolen cards couldn't be used without PINs?
An Identity Thief Explains the Art of Emptying Your Bank Account
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yale-Loehr must be so proud. Deferring to the torture risk in Belarus is such as an obvious bullshit. The only way they can torture there is by forcing you to eat their organic condensed sweetened milk.
I hate that you're being downvoted. There's a real gamification of immigration and welfare benefits in the US by shady lawyers that serve the corrupt and steal resources from those who actually need them. These stories are endless. The big problem with building a pro-immigration welfare state is that there's often no check on fraud. Bureaucrats like bigger budgets, expanding, etc and would rather just rubber stamp ev…
I'm pretty sure 150m of Russian people are not hackers investigated by the KGB.
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#33Wait, I don't get this. The Amex agent called the old phone number on the account. The person who answered gave some indication of being the account owner, but didn't answer quite as many questions correctly as the thief. So what scenario is the agent hypothesizing? The person at the old number was actually the identity thief, and used the account for maybe several years without any challenge, before the actual owner…
I think underlying all this is the assumption that they actually called the old number on another line. This was asserted by Dmitry; however there's no evidence that it wasn't just the typical put-you-on-hold repeatedly scenario where the rep keeps going to the supervisor. Maybe he just mentally over-remembered the situation?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't really argue with you but I have lots of sympathy for the kid despite him being a criminal. It's probably because I was born in a country occupied by Russia until the 90s and his is still and I can't bring myself to wish this unto anyone. It's probably not a good idea to trust a con-man but I think he's likely to become a net positive asset to society.
You are misinformed, Belarus is not occupied by Russia.
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#35Quick question : would you pay extra fees for a credit card that only allows transaction from whitelisted stores and if used online, the shipping address could be only to a whitelisted address ?
It sounds like you're describing paypal
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't really argue with you but I have lots of sympathy for the kid despite him being a criminal. It's probably because I was born in a country occupied by Russia until the 90s and his is still and I can't bring myself to wish this unto anyone. It's probably not a good idea to trust a con-man but I think he's likely to become a net positive asset to society.
You are misinformed, Belarus is not occupied by Russia.
He said "Until the 90s..."
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#38The best part of the story is how he hacked the US immigration system to be able to stay in the US after serving his time: > Factoring in time served and a reduction for good behavior, Naskovets got out in September 2012. He faced a deportation order that would have sent him back to Belarus. Representing himself in immigration court, he argued that he risked torture if sent home, based on his run-ins with the KGB. As…
That is how immigration law is supposed to work so it is not a hack. [1][2]
I represented many, many individuals who were in removal proceedings (deportation) or where otherwise immediately detained while entering the US without authorization/documentation. In many instances there was a real threat to the lives of my Clients if returned to their home countries (Haiti and Columbia) that they would be killed/tortured by the political opposition and/or FARC. But they didn't hack the legal system, they availed themselves to it.
[1] http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum/obt... [2]http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum
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#39Commit crimes, get relatively short term sentence and pay 200$ fine, stay in the U.S. Crime does pay. Sucks pretty hard, identity theft is really nasty if it happens to you. That being said while slightly exaggerated the claim of torture in Belarus isn't far fetched. Dude in charge is pretty much a crazy dictator. I remember during the (last?) elections his main opponent was mysteriously beaten up and he said in an i…
The idea that you arrest someone to serve time in your prison because he broke your laws, and then you cannot send them back because of another law is just mind-blowing.
We could just send him to Guantanamo Bay, or start a prison colony somewhere.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Belarus#Opposi... Belarus is subject to US sanctions for “undermining democratic process and constituting an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”.[25] It is also subject to sanctions imposed by the European Union for human-rights violations.[26] Belarus has been determined to be a habitual violator of internati…
How on Earth is Belarus "constituting an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States"?
It’s a communist nation, the US just declared all soviet nations to be a threat during the cold war.