Peek Inside a Professional Carding Shop

  • 4 June 2014
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After the attacks on the big high streets brands over the last few months such as Target and Sally Beauty to name just two, the scammers have to sell the stolen information and this is a scene that the ordinary person does not often come across. This article goes to great depths to explain and take us through what happens after our data is stolen.
 
                                                                              


 
"Over the past year, I’ve spent a great deal of time trolling a variety of underground stores that sell “dumps” — street slang for stolen credit card data that buyers can use to counterfeit new cards and go shopping in big-box stores for high-dollar merchandise that can be resold quickly for cash. By way of explaining this bizarro world, this post takes the reader on a tour of a rather exclusive and professional dumps shop that caters to professional thieves, high-volume buyers and organized crime gangs.
The subject of this post is “McDumpals,” a leading dumps shop that first went online in late April 2013.  Featuring the familiar golden arches and the bastardized logo, “i’m swipin’ it,”  the site’s mascot is a gangstered-up Ronald McDonald pointing a handgun at the viewer."
 
                                                   



 
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That is a fascinating article, especially the glossary of terms used.  Nice find!

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