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Credit card ?power users? have made it easier to enter the business
Data gathered in Azusa Pacific University Honeypot project, which is part of the Honeynet Alliance
Researchers secretly watched intruder join IRC channels on DALnet dedicated to obtaining, verify, and swapping credit card numbers, along with matching names, addresses, and everything else a good credit carders needs to begin ordering goods and services
Moved through dozens of chat rooms (#ccinfo, #ccpower, #virgincc)
Found a friendly helpful atmosphere
Automated tools to verify numbers, banks, credit limits
Apparently they had access to cc databases through corrupt merchants who got a percentage
Offered free cc numbers to newbies to get them started