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Wake up and smell the fraud

Planet Money

CHAPTER

The New Hotness in Credit Card Caching

Triangulation fraud is harder to detect than previous forms of credit card caching. Fraudster acts as a secret middleman, using George from Poughkeepsie's stolen credit card number and buying Nina exactly what she wants while depositing her clean money into a bank account somewhere. If the buyer had been anyone other than Nina, it would have worked out beautifully. Everyone in the triangle comes out ahead.

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