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...started innocuously enough: a credit card customer in Connecticut opened his monthly statement and noticed a charge for a piece of electronic equipment that he had never purchased. By last week that apparent billing error had blossomed into a full-fledged hacker scandal and led to the arrest of seven New Jersey teenagers who were charged with conspiracy and using their home computers and telephone hookups to commit computer theft...
According to police, who confiscated $30,000 worth of computer equipment and hundreds of floppy disks, the youths had exchanged stolen credit card numbers, bypassed long-distance telephone fees, traded supposedly secret phone numbers (including those of top Pentagon officials) and published instructions on how to construct a letter bomb. But most remarkable of all, the first reports said, the youngsters had even managed to shift the orbit of one or more communications satellites. That feat, the New York Post decided, was worth a front-page headline: WHIZ KIDS ZAP U.S. SATELLITES...
Last spring postal authorities traced the Connecticut credit card purchase and a string of other fraudulent transactions to a post-office box in South Plainfield, N. J. Someone was using the box to take delivery of stereo and radar-detection equipment ordered through a computerized mail-order catalog. The trail led to a young New Jersey enthusiast who used the alias "New Jersey Hack Sack" and communicated regularly with other computer owners over a loosely organized network of electronic bulletin boards. A computer search of the contents of those boards by Detective George Green and Patrolman Michael Grennier...
...Credit card telemarketers have recently called large numbers of Harvard students, insinuating affiliation with the College and failing to heed “no call” requests. Callers, identifying themselves as representatives of Clout Visa, have asked students for personal information, including birthdays and Social Security numbers...
...Middlebury college recently released a warning to its students regarding a credit card scam claiming to represent Citibank and Visa...