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How scammers get away with fraud

127 points by alexbilbie 8y ago

astura 8y ago
>The police are concerned about the prospect of vans carrying vast amounts of petrol. There is a pictures of such trucks here: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/gas-theft-gangs-fuel-pump-skimming-scams/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/gas-theft-gangs-fuel-pum...
- jackweirdy 8y ago
  > On Oct. 1, 2015, Visa and MasterCard put in force new rules that can penalize merchants who do not yet have chip-enabled terminals. Under the new rules, merchants that don’t have the technology to accept chip cards will assume full liability for the cost of fraud from purchases in which the customer presented a chip-enabled card. > But those rules don’t apply to fuel stations in the United States until October 2017, and a great many stations won’t meet that deadline, said Verifone’s Turner. I'm not from the US though I visit often. It's the only place I ever use the magnetic stripe on my card. I tend to be able to use the chip when buying groceries, but in most restaurants & coffee shops its mag stripe all the way. Realistically is that going to change any time soon?
  - Bluestrike2 8y ago
    Eventually. But it's still a slow process.
  - adrr 8y ago
    Chips require certification to make sure merchant is sending the right data over the network. This is why you see chip readers but the merchant only supports swipe. Visa and other card brands are trying to clean up all the screwed up data on network, really stupid things like a merchant bought a used card reader but never bothered to change the old merchant info on it.
    - StudentStuff 8y ago
      Pinpads and terminals have to be re-injected with debit keys for the appropriate bank and reconfigured with the correct software load & merchant account before you can use hardware that was used by another merchant. If you don't do that, the other merchant is very likely to receive the funds you charge your clients cards for, short of their merchant account being closed. The reason EMV isn't enabled at most merchants is its both more expensive than standard swipe transactions, and massively slower unless your Costco & Kroger (who both just got quick chip). 30 seconds of waiting for a card to process, combined with EMV chip read errors due to partial insertion or failing/oxidized contacts (especially common on pinpads that aren't mounted to the table, most often the Pax S300 cause those customers are cheap AF) is a recipe for long lines. Grocers are leading the EMV transition as they are the most powerful block of merchants when it comes to beating down interchange rates and processing fees, with Walmart repeatedly suing Mastercard, and other large retailers doing the same to the other card vendors. For that small segment, they've been able to beat down Visa & Mastercard on the per kilobyte data transmission fee and on the other BS fees that make processing EMV cards more expensive than magstripe.
      - ACow_Adonis 8y ago
        An honest question: why would the cost of chip processing be prohibitive and the speed of chip processing be 30 seconds of waiting in the US, when its essentially rolled out en-mass in AUS and neither of those things (appear) to applicable, or at the very least they haven't stopped mass adoption? It certainly doesn't take 30 seconds of waiting to tap and pay here...
        lb1lf 8y ago
        Same goes for Norway; swiping is just a fallback measure if the chip is unreadable; you then have to sign at the register and your signature is supposed to be compared to the one on your card. Transaction (be it chip or swipe) is approved in a couple of seconds. The last couple of years, we've had cards fitted with NFC, too - so if the terminal is compatible, no need to type the PIN code, either - just put the card next to the terminal, done. (This only works for smaller charges - less than $65-ish, methinks - and every now and then you're asked to type your PIN anyway.)
  - craftyguy 8y ago
    > But those rules don’t apply to fuel stations in the United States until October 2017 It's July 2018. So this should be in effect right? right? > Realistically is that going to change any time soon? Unlikely. Until the penalties affect consumers/voters en masse, it's highly unlikely to ever change. Even if it did, a few congressional hearings would lull voters enough to not care any longer. The only hope is that fraud becomes so expensive for the card folks that they actually enforce this themselves. Obviously that hasn't happened for all, but maybe they are making progress?
    - _rs 8y ago
      Well, actually, that was delayed until 2020 now.
  - rhino369 8y ago
    I think we have mostly converted. But small price restaurants and coffee shops are the last ones to switch. They aren’t big fraud targets since you can’t convert their product to cash. Their maginal cost is low so fraud isn’t a huge concern. Grocery stores and big ticket places seem to already have switched. Though they seem to allow swiping if your chip gets a bad read three times (under the assumption it is broken). That sort of defeats the security.
  - whatever_dude 8y ago
    It will take a long time. I live in NY and regularly go to big stores that already have chip-capable hardware installed, but have disabled it and ask customers to swipe instead. Like anything in the US, retail businesses frequently prefer doing the opposite of what the world does, and ignore what's the most sensible decision.
  - clubm8 8y ago
    So dumb question: What does chip and signature accomplish? I assume that someone who installs a skimmer can still use the card data somewhere that does not have a chip terminal... it is my understanding that the vast majority of fraud in the states is CNP (card not present).
- lb1lf 8y ago
  My everyday driver is an old Land Cruiser; long ago, I fitted extended range fuel tanks; capacity is 180L (just shy of 50 US gallons.) On several occasions, I've had attendants come out to ask a question or two when filling up - my guess is some kind of warning sounds inside if you pump too much fuel in one go from the pumps intended for smaller vehicles. (One attendant kept looking nervously on the concrete the car was parked on - half expecting to find us standing in rapidly expanding a puddle of diesel...)
- raverbashing 8y ago
  Seems like they'll need to pre-authorize more and have a ceiling of expenses (so it preauthorizes 20GBP and you can only fill up to 50GBP for example) (And do the transaction in a shorter timeframe, I don't see why it should take 1 day for it to go through)
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someonenice 8y ago
Though informative , it felt like an Advertorial for the Monzo bank...
- 55555 8y ago
  It was, duh.
  - thiscatis 8y ago
    Exactly.
- erikb 8y ago
  That's how you get information. Someone is interested to spread the info for a selfish reason. Also when you hear politician A did scandal B. That's actually the team of politician C putting pressure on A. Or when you hear a German car company having trouble with fulfilling US safety guidelines. That's one or more US car companies trying to fend off a competitor. The world is a selfish place. But thanks to that competition between different parties even normal people like you and me can gather some info about it.
larkeith 8y ago
"...and one [scam] so simple we are banned from telling you about it." Interesting.
raincom 8y ago
I used my chip card in Canada during the last week. I used my visa chip card heavily for gas, bc ferries, food, etc. I remember giving out my card number, expiry date and security code to an agency that offers whale seeing tours in Victoria Island. Next day, I saw two charges: $108.XX from Chick-A-Fil, Salisbury, MD and $1.00 from Sweden. The card issuer called me right away to verify what's going on. I wonder how my cc details were compromised. Was it a skimmer at gas stations? or one of those credit card scanners in Canada (Canadians seems to use PIN number with credit cards) or bcferries.com website. I am not sure.
- robk 8y ago
  Could be malware on the computer at your whale watching place. That'd be my bet.
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- stordoff 8y ago
  It can be difficult to know. I had some fraudulent charges from a Best Buy in Washington (IIRC), despite never having been to the States. I had ordered from Best Buy online, but that was about six months prior so no idea if that is related. It's also a card I've _never_ used in person, and most of my online transactions are through PayPal or Amazon, so no idea how my card details leaked.
- user5454 8y ago
  I recently returned from a trip to the USA and was a bit surprised that they asked for ZIP code instead of PIN for my credit card. While the NY subway accepted my non-US ZIP code, some gas stations did not as they apparently checked the entered ZIP code against valid US ZIP codes.
  - Kurtz79 8y ago
    To my knowledge, in some machines non-US ZIP codes are accepted up to a cash limit (can't remember if it's daily or for transaction). Probably your bill at the gas stations was higher than the one for the subway tickets.
cantrevealname 8y ago
> In one instance, it froze thousands of pounds that had arrived into an account. “We blocked it and contacted the originating bank,” says Blomfield. “But that bank [one of the biggest UK players] said it was all fine. Then it rang a few days later to say it looked like the customer had been conned. Luckily, we were able to return the money.” I wonder how often it happens that the bank simply keeps the money it froze, either telling nothing to the originating bank, or telling the originating bank that the money has been transferred or withdrawn. For two banks that rarely deal with each and are in different countries, what can the originating bank possibly do other than take whatever the receiving bank says at face value?
cantrevealname 8y ago
> because the sum stolen – £40,000 – is deemed not large enough to bother the authorities There was an investigative news story on TV about a couple who would order hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise over the Internet using stolen credit card numbers and brazenly have it delivered to their own home. The TV crew showed their house brimming top to bottom with boxes and boxes of fraudulently obtained goods that they would resell on eBay. They said no police ever visited them. In every one of the frauds the couple committed, the merchant would know that he shipped to (for example) 1234 Main St, Minneapolis. The credit card issuer, bank, and defrauded card holder would have the address also. Probably hundreds of police reports were made, or am I assuming too much? If a single policeman actually followed up on one of these "too small" thefts of $100 to $1000 they could have prevented hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional theft. I imagine that the system breaks down because no one reports the fraud or pushes to get something done, or because the police don't follow up, or both.
- Waterluvian 8y ago
  It's kind of bizarre. I'm no expert but I feel like tackling petty theft is a form of preventative medicine for crime. Getting away with crime might embolden people and reinforce their assumption that you can get away with it. When I was younger some teens would water balloon my family's house a few times a week. We called the police when we thought we figured out who it was. They showed up within an hour, had a chat about it then went to the kids' houses who promptly confessed. It was all handled outside the legal system. Later I told a police officer about this story and asked why they were able to give it so much attention so promptly. He said something along the lines of, "it's easier to deter them now while they're still afraid of their parents' wrath."
  - dhimes 8y ago
    I wonder if it's just economically more advantageous for the credit card companies to absorb the debt and simply nudge interest rates up a bit to recover their losses.
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erikb 8y ago
I think it depends. If it's a really big bank, even when it's only $100 the police will probably follow up on it. But with the small competitor banks even big sums like $40k will not get pursued. And you can't say $40k is not a big sum. It certainly is. As a bank one has other options besides the law, though. Lawyers, private detectives, even deals with gangs. It's not impossible to survive such things and defend against it. The only thing stopping the bank is the bank itself. Like most organisations a bank is probably barely able to achieve what it makes money with and everything else trailing off into nirvana in an unlimited amount of bureaucracy.
hvo 8y ago
"because the sum stolen – £40,000 – is deemed not large enough to bother the authorities" You just apply broken window theory to everyone of them.Punish swiftly to discourage bad behavior. Students who sell their accounts for cash;charge them with conspiracy to commit fraud and money-laundering. Some of the criminal activities described in the article are kind of chutzpah
auslander 8y ago
> because of his ears... ear positions are the most difficult thing to fake ROFL :) Credit Card security model, with CVV, is so broken, but also so widespread, it is cheaper to cover fraud than change it. Especially if card processors (Visa, MasterCard) can shift damages onto merchants.
nostalgeek 8y ago
While customers victim of online scams and identity theft are more or less protected by big vendors or banks because of regulations, provided they act swiftly, small merchants are often on hook when a scam happens with very little options to recoup the money lost. What are the solutions for merchants? insurances? anti-fraud detection services? What could you recommend to a merchant that is starting to do business online? restrict with whom one does business with? use bigger merchants to do transactions? what works, what doesn't to mitigate risk?
- benmowa 8y ago
  see eCommerce Fraud Prevention. There are a few companies focused on this space to protect merchants from fraudulent chargebacks. But in short, you can get pretty complex with multiple vendors being leveraged, but the economics of fraud vs fraud prevention really depends on your business.
clubm8 8y ago
>Frustratingly, there are few mechanisms for banks to communicate with each other. “In the US, there is a web portal for banks to contact each other on these issues. Here, it’s just email, Blomfield adds. “Sometimes we are even told to use a fax.” Interesting. In many ways the Americans are far behind (still writing checks, lack of chip and pin) but in this arena they have Europe beat.
turc1656 8y ago
"These 'mule' accounts are a vital link for crooks moving money around the banking system." Indeed. A vast majority of digital financial crimes in some way rely upon these types of accounts. I really don't understand why I haven't heard of any of these people who sell their accounts to criminals being charged as accessories (before the fact). Perhaps because enforcement is low in general. But I think that a lot of the alleged college students doing this wouldn't risk ruining their future on felony fraud charges for $200 if we started prosecuting some of these people. The mere fact that not all of the money was routed back out and some remained as payment is essentially the smoking gun that they were knowingly involved. Any decent investigator/detective would be able to break these students in 15 minutes once presented with that evidence.

127 points by alexbilbie 8y ago

>The police are concerned about the prospect of vans carrying vast amounts of petrol. There is a pictures of such trucks here: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/gas-theft-gangs-fuel-pump-skimming-scams/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/gas-theft-gangs-fuel-pum...

jackweirdy 8y ago
> On Oct. 1, 2015, Visa and MasterCard put in force new rules that can penalize merchants who do not yet have chip-enabled terminals. Under the new rules, merchants that don’t have the technology to accept chip cards will assume full liability for the cost of fraud from purchases in which the customer presented a chip-enabled card. > But those rules don’t apply to fuel stations in the United States until October 2017, and a great many stations won’t meet that deadline, said Verifone’s Turner. I'm not from the US though I visit often. It's the only place I ever use the magnetic stripe on my card. I tend to be able to use the chip when buying groceries, but in most restaurants & coffee shops its mag stripe all the way. Realistically is that going to change any time soon?
- Bluestrike2 8y ago
  Eventually. But it's still a slow process.
- adrr 8y ago
  Chips require certification to make sure merchant is sending the right data over the network. This is why you see chip readers but the merchant only supports swipe. Visa and other card brands are trying to clean up all the screwed up data on network, really stupid things like a merchant bought a used card reader but never bothered to change the old merchant info on it.
  - StudentStuff 8y ago
    Pinpads and terminals have to be re-injected with debit keys for the appropriate bank and reconfigured with the correct software load & merchant account before you can use hardware that was used by another merchant. If you don't do that, the other merchant is very likely to receive the funds you charge your clients cards for, short of their merchant account being closed. The reason EMV isn't enabled at most merchants is its both more expensive than standard swipe transactions, and massively slower unless your Costco & Kroger (who both just got quick chip). 30 seconds of waiting for a card to process, combined with EMV chip read errors due to partial insertion or failing/oxidized contacts (especially common on pinpads that aren't mounted to the table, most often the Pax S300 cause those customers are cheap AF) is a recipe for long lines. Grocers are leading the EMV transition as they are the most powerful block of merchants when it comes to beating down interchange rates and processing fees, with Walmart repeatedly suing Mastercard, and other large retailers doing the same to the other card vendors. For that small segment, they've been able to beat down Visa & Mastercard on the per kilobyte data transmission fee and on the other BS fees that make processing EMV cards more expensive than magstripe.
    - ACow_Adonis 8y ago
      An honest question: why would the cost of chip processing be prohibitive and the speed of chip processing be 30 seconds of waiting in the US, when its essentially rolled out en-mass in AUS and neither of those things (appear) to applicable, or at the very least they haven't stopped mass adoption? It certainly doesn't take 30 seconds of waiting to tap and pay here...
      - lb1lf 8y ago
        Same goes for Norway; swiping is just a fallback measure if the chip is unreadable; you then have to sign at the register and your signature is supposed to be compared to the one on your card. Transaction (be it chip or swipe) is approved in a couple of seconds. The last couple of years, we've had cards fitted with NFC, too - so if the terminal is compatible, no need to type the PIN code, either - just put the card next to the terminal, done. (This only works for smaller charges - less than $65-ish, methinks - and every now and then you're asked to type your PIN anyway.)
- craftyguy 8y ago
  > But those rules don’t apply to fuel stations in the United States until October 2017 It's July 2018. So this should be in effect right? right? > Realistically is that going to change any time soon? Unlikely. Until the penalties affect consumers/voters en masse, it's highly unlikely to ever change. Even if it did, a few congressional hearings would lull voters enough to not care any longer. The only hope is that fraud becomes so expensive for the card folks that they actually enforce this themselves. Obviously that hasn't happened for all, but maybe they are making progress?
  - _rs 8y ago
    Well, actually, that was delayed until 2020 now.
- rhino369 8y ago
  I think we have mostly converted. But small price restaurants and coffee shops are the last ones to switch. They aren’t big fraud targets since you can’t convert their product to cash. Their maginal cost is low so fraud isn’t a huge concern. Grocery stores and big ticket places seem to already have switched. Though they seem to allow swiping if your chip gets a bad read three times (under the assumption it is broken). That sort of defeats the security.
- whatever_dude 8y ago
  It will take a long time. I live in NY and regularly go to big stores that already have chip-capable hardware installed, but have disabled it and ask customers to swipe instead. Like anything in the US, retail businesses frequently prefer doing the opposite of what the world does, and ignore what's the most sensible decision.
- clubm8 8y ago
  So dumb question: What does chip and signature accomplish? I assume that someone who installs a skimmer can still use the card data somewhere that does not have a chip terminal... it is my understanding that the vast majority of fraud in the states is CNP (card not present).
lb1lf 8y ago
My everyday driver is an old Land Cruiser; long ago, I fitted extended range fuel tanks; capacity is 180L (just shy of 50 US gallons.) On several occasions, I've had attendants come out to ask a question or two when filling up - my guess is some kind of warning sounds inside if you pump too much fuel in one go from the pumps intended for smaller vehicles. (One attendant kept looking nervously on the concrete the car was parked on - half expecting to find us standing in rapidly expanding a puddle of diesel...)
raverbashing 8y ago
Seems like they'll need to pre-authorize more and have a ceiling of expenses (so it preauthorizes 20GBP and you can only fill up to 50GBP for example) (And do the transaction in a shorter timeframe, I don't see why it should take 1 day for it to go through)

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someonenice 8y ago

Though informative , it felt like an Advertorial for the Monzo bank...

55555 8y ago
It was, duh.
- thiscatis 8y ago
  Exactly.
erikb 8y ago
That's how you get information. Someone is interested to spread the info for a selfish reason. Also when you hear politician A did scandal B. That's actually the team of politician C putting pressure on A. Or when you hear a German car company having trouble with fulfilling US safety guidelines. That's one or more US car companies trying to fend off a competitor. The world is a selfish place. But thanks to that competition between different parties even normal people like you and me can gather some info about it.

larkeith 8y ago

"...and one [scam] so simple we are banned from telling you about it." Interesting.

raincom 8y ago

I used my chip card in Canada during the last week. I used my visa chip card heavily for gas, bc ferries, food, etc. I remember giving out my card number, expiry date and security code to an agency that offers whale seeing tours in Victoria Island. Next day, I saw two charges: $108.XX from Chick-A-Fil, Salisbury, MD and $1.00 from Sweden. The card issuer called me right away to verify what's going on. I wonder how my cc details were compromised. Was it a skimmer at gas stations? or one of those credit card scanners in Canada (Canadians seems to use PIN number with credit cards) or bcferries.com website. I am not sure.

robk 8y ago
Could be malware on the computer at your whale watching place. That'd be my bet.
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stordoff 8y ago
It can be difficult to know. I had some fraudulent charges from a Best Buy in Washington (IIRC), despite never having been to the States. I had ordered from Best Buy online, but that was about six months prior so no idea if that is related. It's also a card I've _never_ used in person, and most of my online transactions are through PayPal or Amazon, so no idea how my card details leaked.
user5454 8y ago
I recently returned from a trip to the USA and was a bit surprised that they asked for ZIP code instead of PIN for my credit card. While the NY subway accepted my non-US ZIP code, some gas stations did not as they apparently checked the entered ZIP code against valid US ZIP codes.
- Kurtz79 8y ago
  To my knowledge, in some machines non-US ZIP codes are accepted up to a cash limit (can't remember if it's daily or for transaction). Probably your bill at the gas stations was higher than the one for the subway tickets.

cantrevealname 8y ago

> In one instance, it froze thousands of pounds that had arrived into an account. “We blocked it and contacted the originating bank,” says Blomfield. “But that bank [one of the biggest UK players] said it was all fine. Then it rang a few days later to say it looked like the customer had been conned. Luckily, we were able to return the money.” I wonder how often it happens that the bank simply keeps the money it froze, either telling nothing to the originating bank, or telling the originating bank that the money has been transferred or withdrawn. For two banks that rarely deal with each and are in different countries, what can the originating bank possibly do other than take whatever the receiving bank says at face value?

cantrevealname 8y ago

> because the sum stolen – £40,000 – is deemed not large enough to bother the authorities There was an investigative news story on TV about a couple who would order hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise over the Internet using stolen credit card numbers and brazenly have it delivered to their own home. The TV crew showed their house brimming top to bottom with boxes and boxes of fraudulently obtained goods that they would resell on eBay. They said no police ever visited them. In every one of the frauds the couple committed, the merchant would know that he shipped to (for example) 1234 Main St, Minneapolis. The credit card issuer, bank, and defrauded card holder would have the address also. Probably hundreds of police reports were made, or am I assuming too much? If a single policeman actually followed up on one of these "too small" thefts of $100 to $1000 they could have prevented hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional theft. I imagine that the system breaks down because no one reports the fraud or pushes to get something done, or because the police don't follow up, or both.

Waterluvian 8y ago
It's kind of bizarre. I'm no expert but I feel like tackling petty theft is a form of preventative medicine for crime. Getting away with crime might embolden people and reinforce their assumption that you can get away with it. When I was younger some teens would water balloon my family's house a few times a week. We called the police when we thought we figured out who it was. They showed up within an hour, had a chat about it then went to the kids' houses who promptly confessed. It was all handled outside the legal system. Later I told a police officer about this story and asked why they were able to give it so much attention so promptly. He said something along the lines of, "it's easier to deter them now while they're still afraid of their parents' wrath."
- dhimes 8y ago
  I wonder if it's just economically more advantageous for the credit card companies to absorb the debt and simply nudge interest rates up a bit to recover their losses.
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erikb 8y ago

I think it depends. If it's a really big bank, even when it's only $100 the police will probably follow up on it. But with the small competitor banks even big sums like $40k will not get pursued. And you can't say $40k is not a big sum. It certainly is. As a bank one has other options besides the law, though. Lawyers, private detectives, even deals with gangs. It's not impossible to survive such things and defend against it. The only thing stopping the bank is the bank itself. Like most organisations a bank is probably barely able to achieve what it makes money with and everything else trailing off into nirvana in an unlimited amount of bureaucracy.

hvo 8y ago

"because the sum stolen – £40,000 – is deemed not large enough to bother the authorities" You just apply broken window theory to everyone of them.Punish swiftly to discourage bad behavior. Students who sell their accounts for cash;charge them with conspiracy to commit fraud and money-laundering. Some of the criminal activities described in the article are kind of chutzpah

auslander 8y ago

> because of his ears... ear positions are the most difficult thing to fake ROFL :) Credit Card security model, with CVV, is so broken, but also so widespread, it is cheaper to cover fraud than change it. Especially if card processors (Visa, MasterCard) can shift damages onto merchants.

nostalgeek 8y ago

While customers victim of online scams and identity theft are more or less protected by big vendors or banks because of regulations, provided they act swiftly, small merchants are often on hook when a scam happens with very little options to recoup the money lost. What are the solutions for merchants? insurances? anti-fraud detection services? What could you recommend to a merchant that is starting to do business online? restrict with whom one does business with? use bigger merchants to do transactions? what works, what doesn't to mitigate risk?

benmowa 8y ago
see eCommerce Fraud Prevention. There are a few companies focused on this space to protect merchants from fraudulent chargebacks. But in short, you can get pretty complex with multiple vendors being leveraged, but the economics of fraud vs fraud prevention really depends on your business.

clubm8 8y ago

>Frustratingly, there are few mechanisms for banks to communicate with each other. “In the US, there is a web portal for banks to contact each other on these issues. Here, it’s just email, Blomfield adds. “Sometimes we are even told to use a fax.” Interesting. In many ways the Americans are far behind (still writing checks, lack of chip and pin) but in this arena they have Europe beat.

turc1656 8y ago

"These 'mule' accounts are a vital link for crooks moving money around the banking system." Indeed. A vast majority of digital financial crimes in some way rely upon these types of accounts. I really don't understand why I haven't heard of any of these people who sell their accounts to criminals being charged as accessories (before the fact). Perhaps because enforcement is low in general. But I think that a lot of the alleged college students doing this wouldn't risk ruining their future on felony fraud charges for $200 if we started prosecuting some of these people. The mere fact that not all of the money was routed back out and some remained as payment is essentially the smoking gun that they were knowingly involved. Any decent investigator/detective would be able to break these students in 15 minutes once presented with that evidence.