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by julia-zheng 2689 days ago
So actually acquiring stolen cc numbers is very easy - there's a bunch of marketplaces that sell thousands of them. Figuring out a scalable way to extract value out of them, however, is hard. More than visible or invisible barriers, what makes a fraudster want to spend time getting around the defenses of a specific business is the value of the offering (e.g., banks vs an app that sells a service)