Call Centers for Computer Criminals
Summary: New York authorities unsealed an indictment against two Belarusian nationals suspected of running Callservice.biz, a rent-a-fraudster service launched in Lithuania in June 2007 that supplied English- and German-speaking stand-ins to authorize wire transfers, unblock accounts and change contact information by phone for thieves. U.S. authorities seized the Callservice.biz website and Cardingworld.cc, the restricted criminal forum where it was hosted, while other services on the Verified.su forum still advertise call centers charging $10 per call and more than a dozen operators contacting banks and stores in the United States and Europe.
What you should know: The stolen data these operators used to pass bank screening included victims' Social Security numbers and answers to security questions such as a father's age at the victim's birth or the city where the victim married - the same knowledge-based checks many institutions still treat as proof of identity.
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