Word: cyberthief
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Instead of returning to his backward hometown, however, Eyestrain stayed in Manila and became a cyberthief. By hacking into several e-commerce websites, he has built up a database of hundreds of credit card numbers. To use them without risking arrest, he set up a mailing system through a chat room, a kind of Net Bandits Clearing House. It works like this: "I order two monitors, they get sent to an address in Tacoma, Washington, that the guy I met in the chat room has access to, and then he forwards me one monitor and keeps the other for himself...
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