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Brady, who was out on bail after being arrested for grand theft and forgery this summer, is charged with six counts of unlicensed practice of law and one count of fraud...
...forced to kill the brilliant bill. According to 70 percent of New Yorkers, the proposal went too far. Lou Dobbs ranted about granting privileges where none are due. The Wall Street Journal, one of the loudest advocates for open borders, unfairly dubbed the proposal a recipe for voter fraud. New York Democrats who had originally supported Spitzer claimed that the governor’s compromise with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) betrayed their civil libertarian ideals.No one understood the plan.In late September, Spitzer motioned to change a Department of Motor Vehicles policy so that undocumented immigrants would become eligible...
Sweetnurse and his sidekicks are shopping online--but they have no intention of paying. Though the rest of the world calls it credit-card fraud, the youths here have given it a more innocent name: "carding." Thousands of young Indonesians, particularly in college towns like Bandung and Yogyakarta (in central Java), have turned to the practice for fun and profit. At least 20% of Internet credit-card transactions in Indonesia are fraudulent, according to a recent study by the online-security company ClearCommerce, based in Austin, Texas, which has identified Indonesia as one of the worst countries for cyberfraud...
...they are cheap at 30[cents] an hour. The hackers start by firing up an Internet Relay Chat program--software that connects them to a worldwide network of chat rooms. The next step is to make up a user name and find a chat room dedicated to credit-card fraud. There Sweetnurse verifies credit-card numbers--even numbers picked at random--to determine their credit limits and expiration dates, using the same types of automated programs deployed by credit-card companies and banks for that purpose. He jots down a number, then goes shopping. Usually he selects books...
Some sites are harder to crack, and Indonesia has a reputation for fraud now that precedes its online shoppers. More and more merchants around the world refuse to ship to Indonesia. But the "carders" of Bandung have found a way around that. The trick is not to identify themselves as Indonesian. The credit cards they use are usually from other countries. When a carder provides the shipping information, he makes up a name and street address, leaving off his country's name and asking instead that the merchandise be sent to "Java West, India" or "Bound Dungs, Australia." The carder...