[madair]

Why isn't there effective enforcement?

Is it:

-- Incompetence? Leadership, technical, other? -- Low visibility to law enforcement? (In which case, why?) -- Priorities? Well-placed? Misplaced? -- Strategic? For ethical purposes?

The problem needs fixing, but it seems important understanding why we're at this point today when enforcement seems to obvious and simple. There's more than enough enforcement power available, at least in the U.S., to deal with the brazen criminals and make it much harder for them. Are those honeypots?

[ams6110]

At least on the surface, it would seem that the CC companies themselves have the most motivation to put a stop to this. Why are their anti-fraud departments not forwarding these sites to the FBI, getting court orders to shut down the domains (at least those hosted in the USA) working with big ISPs to get them blacklisted...?

Is there some non-obvious reason that it's in the interest of the CC companies to let this go? Is there a lot of low-level fraud that customers never notice, and just keep making those monthly minimum payments?

[ambiate]

Ever heard of chargebacks? You use my card, I complain to my cc company, they refund my money and attack the seller with fees for lack of verification.

So, >CC Thief gets whatever he bought at an empty house >CC holder gets stuck in an infinite customer service loop >CC company avoids charges >Seller gets fined