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Wake up and smell the fraud

Planet Money

CHAPTER

Nespresso Pods at Half the Normal Price

The case of the extra Nespresso machine is a credit card scam. A way to turn stolen credit card numbers into clean money in a fraudsters bank account. All while everyone who's drawn into the scam feels like they're coming out ahead. To explain how it works, we're going to need some reinforcements. Patrick Mackenzie says surprisingly, their world isn't that different from ours.

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