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Interesting. Could the credit card industry take advantage of this by setting up honeypots - sites that look easily exploitable to the average crook, but that w

• Crosseye_Jack 8y ago
  They would have to change the honeypots often. Scammers are fully aware that banks will also use the data to find other stolen cards. You get reports that 100 people what their details breached. You look though their transactions. The one thing they all used was momandpopsidebusiness.com for small transactions. These were prob test transactions so now you start looking for other customers whose cards fall under the same pattern and let the other banks know of your findings. So scammers will use many “test sites” so if one get found it doesn’t it doesn’t knock out their whole batch. And word would also quickly spread that cctesterrorscammers.com is a honeypot used by the banks and card processors. You could look at it like they don’t need the honeypots at all as they just need a few customers to report activity on their accounts and then they can start looking at the data they already have on file.