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Carders once used to peddle their wares on forums as “novs” for novelties, as though they were only providing fake accounts or fake personal details for fun. What Rusin showed me on his laptop were bold, even boastful, claims. For example, today they’re not just selling card information online.

Rusin says that once a criminal has your Social Security number, it’s possible to find the rest of that personal information from various sources via Google. “Typically, they’re garnished from phishes but also from hacks. It’s everything I need to become you. So your identity in the underground is worth about 20 bucks.”

That’s an example of what’s known in the business as an “account takeover,” the most common use of personal information, in which thieves start using your active account without your knowledge. The effect is immediate, and the losses can be large.

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Debit cards and PINs are hot subjects on the criminal underground forums these days, Tom Rusin said on a recent visit to CNET. Rusin is president of North American operations at Affinion Group, a company that monitors the criminal underground for several thousand banking institutions by lurking in carder chat rooms.

You can hear more of my interview with Tom Rusin in this week’s Security Bites podcast.

New-account creation requires that a carder have a Social Security number, birth date, and mother’s maiden name, at least. Rusin explained that a “full” profile will contain a name, address, SSN, date of birth, and driver’s license number. Scrolling through the forum, he fingered one of the entries on the screen and said, “this guy’s selling U.S. fulls for $20.”

Getting to this level of access hasn’t been easy, Rusin said. Carders are tremendously paranoid. Often, just to gain access to the forums, you have to demonstrate your chops by providing up to five active credit card account numbers. It’s the equivalent of gang or mafia initiation.

In 2007, FaceTime Communications’ Chris Boyd and Wayne Porter gave a standing room-only talk at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on a botnet they’d traced back to the Q8 Army sites.

Rusin says Affinion has been establishing its carder credentials since 1998 or so. The company maintains several credit cards, accounts that they use to test their own software as well as that of others in spotting customer’s data among the carder forums. For example, they once fed an Affinion credit card account to a carder, then watched at the bank’s end of things.

The next most common use, according to Rusin, is new-account creation. This is a slower process, and it often involves establishing utility accounts. Here, the goal is to actually become someone else so that if it ever gets to court, a jury would have a tough time determining the difference between your transactions and another’s.

There is a predictable pattern. Often, the purchasing individual will first run a $1 transaction through to a charity–say, the American Red Cross. Once that transaction is authenticated, a flood of illegal purchases cascade in until the card account is shut down.

Rusin, whose company also sells ID protection services, likens the process of ID monitoring to having a smoke detector: “You should have a smoke detector in your house.” So the goal isn’t necessarily to stop ID fraud, but rather to manage it.

“Carders” are the people who buy, sell, and trade online the credit card data stolen from phishing sites or from large data breaches at retail stores. Affinion is one of the largest identity protection companies in the world, with offices in more than a dozen countries. Over the years, it has provided a wealth of information to the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI. A few weeks ago, Affinion identified .Mac users who found themselves victims of a phishing scam.

Unfortunately, personal information is going to flow, admits Rusin. He cites high-profile data breaches such as the ones affecting ChoicePoint and the parent company of TJ Maxx.

As CNET’s resident security expert, Robert Vamosi has been interviewed on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and other outlets to share his knowledge about the latest online threats and to offer advice on personal and corporate security. Listen to his podcast at securitybites.cnet.com or e-mail Robert with your questions and comments.

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  by mraardvark September 29, 2008 3:14 PM PDT

  At $20 it sounds like there is no shortage of solen info.

  I wonder if in addition to protecting important information, if flooding the markets with bad information to the point of making it impractical to sort through it all? Spam the spammers so to speak

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  by Imalittleteapot September 29, 2008 3:33 PM PDT

  Like I said before… Are we ready to start using smart cards that can’t be traded on a forum and pass a law that requires you to go down to a bank branch that has been registered in a national database as your bank and show your ID and give permission before a company can open an account in your name?

  Oh wait, what about this line.
  “Affinion is one of the largest identity protection companies in the world”

  Ah, and now we see. We already know how to build the technology that would cut identity theft in half or more. We just don’t use it because companies like this would go broke and banks actually don’t give a crap because they can just issue a charge back and the only people actually hurt is the card holder and the store owner. This is why the credit card companies won’t make safer credit cards. They have no reason to care. Meanwhile someone is buying child porn with your identity.

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  by Lerianis September 30, 2008 4:02 AM PDT

  There isn’t any way to make safer credit cards. And actually, most of them have been trying to make it safer by putting CCV2 numbers on the backs of their cards, and even when you buy something online, with Visa cards at least, a special ‘interstital’ site comes up and wants you to put in a special password that you make for your card.

  Now, you CAN still buy things without that special thing (I’ve done it before) but it takes a while longer and gets a lot more scrutiny before it is approved.

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  by The_Decider October 24, 2008 4:34 PM PDT

  You think that smart cards can’t be spoofed or the information obtained from them?

  Wow, and I don’t mean that in a good way.

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  by Doug Woodall September 29, 2008 4:15 PM PDT

  $20! I remember a few yrs ago the going proce was about $100.
  They must be getting better, or users security has gotten worse.
  Or both.

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  by mrobinson52 September 29, 2008 9:51 PM PDT

  I have to ask the question: If these sites are well known, why has there been no effort to shut them down and go after the site owners at least?

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  by Lerianis September 30, 2008 4:00 AM PDT

  Because, in the countries where they are hosted, they are (inconceivably) legal! That’s the main problem here: these sites are LEGAL in many foreign countries that don’t like the United States.

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  by Harrison912 September 30, 2008 10:32 AM PDT

  Thanks, Robert, for this great article. As a safety and security web site owner, I too am wondering why these “carder chat rooms” haven’t been shut down or at least used to catch these criminals. It sounds to me like they have a safe haven for their activity.

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  by rcardona2k September 30, 2008 11:03 AM PDT

  It’s a waste of time to go after carder rooms. They can use dynamic DNS and go through several sites with no problem. Don’t encourage the thieves to charge more crap on the pilfered cards. The problem is with the visibility of identity data and consumers giving the info out freely. Need more education especially with the analog generations!

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  by nellwal1 October 1, 2008 6:01 AM PDT

  Very interesting and informative article - I always like to keep up with what these guys are doing, and new ways they are finding to steal cash and become identity thieves. Thanks for posting………I plan on reviewing the DOJ paper.

  http://whistlersear.wordpress.com.

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  by jerobbins October 5, 2008 8:25 AM PDT

  If the carders are only willing to pay $20, does that mean that on average they net about $20 from each theft? Obviously, the victim loses more, but does only something like $20 filter back to the person who makes the false charges? Otherwise, I would think that they would be willing to pay more.

  Also, how does one criminal pay another criminal $20 securely and reliably? How do they know that they are not stealing each others’ identities or making false promises to pay or deliver?

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