How do credit theives get murchandise shipped to themselves w/o getting caught?
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Some use PO box address, that-s why many sites have a policy of not shipping to PO boxes.
On the other hand, our IP addresses are logged everytime we make a transaction, and that-s how the FBI can track them since the ISP will disclose to the FBI all the details of such IP address.
Finally, some thieves make just one time purchases and have a lot of mobility, or they would use several credit card numbers to make their tracking difficult.
It's not really due to the cops, but the failure of the merchant to take proper precautions in analyzing every order.
Most merchants are just so happy to receive an order. These thieves are often so smart that they can get all the needed information including the 3 digits verification code at the back. When the credit card transaction goes through the merchant's machine, they simply take in the order.
Some merchants fail to take a closer look at the order and do some sniff tests if the order is indeed genuine:
- shipping address is different from billing addess
- telephone area code given is different from billing address
- very large orders
- repeated large orders
- wants expedited shipping such as Fedex
It's a good thing that credit card companies now take stricter precautions even to the point of calling the credit card holder if the item was indeed ordered
Unfortunately for merchants who take a lax approach to verifying credit card payments, they will be slapped a chargeback fee + loss of the item they've shipped to these thieves
Dateline did a series on "To Catch a Thief". the identity thieves usually lure lonely people in on line with promises of relationships and have merchandise sent to their homes. The id thieves will then con those people into sending the merchandise to other locations where they are sold (usually over seas, Nigeria is one of the biggest destinations).
I heard of a lot of story's of what they do but what they do is mail it to a p o box or even a diff address and just be standing they when the package arrives.
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