Good Wall Street Journal article on criminal gangs that scam people out of their
credit card information:
> Your highway toll payment is now past due, one text warns. You have U.S.
> Postal Service fees to pay, another threatens. You owe the New York City
> Department of Finance for unpaid traffic violations.
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> The texts are ploys to get unsuspecting victims to fork over their credit-card
> details. The gangs behind the scams take advantage of this information to buy
> iPhones, gift cards, clothing and cosmetics.
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> Criminal organizations operating out of China, which investigators blame for
> the toll and postage messages, have used them to make more than $1 billion
> over the last three years, according to the Department of Homeland Security...