{"id":982,"date":"2008-05-09T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T17:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=982"},"modified":"2008-05-09T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T18:08:40","slug":"satisfaction-guaranteed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Satisfaction Guaranteed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francois Paget, an investigator at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avertlabs.com\/research\/blog\/\">McAfee Avert Labs<\/a>,\u00a0has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avertlabs.com\/research\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/07\/you-have-to-pay-for-quality\/\">posted a\u00a0detailed report <\/a>on a site\u00a0that gives us insight into the emerging international market for identity information.\u00a0 \u00a0He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last Friday morning in France, my investigations lead me to visit a site proposing top-quality data for a higher price than usual. But when we look at this data we understand that as everywhere, you have to pay for quality. The first offer concerned bank logons. As you can see in the following screenshot, pricing depends on available balance, bank organization and country. Additional information such as PIN and Transfer Passphrase are also given when necessary:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/05\/francois-1\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For such prices, the seller offers some guaranties. For example, the purchase is covered by replacement, if you are unable &#8211; within the 24 hours &#8211; to log into the account using the provided details.<\/p>\n<p>The selling site also proposes US, Austria and Spanish credit cards with full information&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It is also possible to purchase skimmers (for ATM machine) and \u201cdump tracks\u201d to create fake credit cards. Here too, cost is in touch with the quality:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/05\/francois-2\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many other offers are available like shop administrative area accesses (back end of an online store where all the customer details are stored \u2013 from Name, SSN, DOB, Address, Phone number to CC) or UK or Swiss Passport information:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/05\/francois-3\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of Francois&#8217; story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avertlabs.com\/research\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/07\/you-have-to-pay-for-quality\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Beyond that, it&#39;s well worth\u00a0keeping up with\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avertlabs.com\/research\/blog\/\">Avert Labs\u00a0blog<\/a>, where every post\u00a0reminds us that\u00a0the future of the Internet depends on fundamentally increasing its security and privacy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<small>[Note:\u00a0 I slightly condensed\u00a0Francois&#8217; graphics&#8230;]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francois&#8217; investigations led him to a cache of top-quality data with &#8220;a higher price than usual&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,40,61,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}