[Full-disclosure] Re: [General-discussion] Graph analysis of stolen credit cards

[Lance James <phishing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lance James wrote:
> One thing to add:
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correction 21,000 cards per 3 months.
> This is one group, with 21,000 cards per month (that we know about) and
> law enforcement estimates about $500.00 per card in average loss. At
> that rate, in 3 months, one carding group causes $10,500,000.00 in loss.
> And this carding group is at the low end of the totem poll.
>
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> Lance James wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> We took one sample of one carding/phishing forum that our Global
>> Surveillance Center was monitoring and sampled the set into a graph that
>> lists the top 10 banks and the losses over the last month. As you can
>> see, it's obvious who the top credit card companies are out there, but
>> at the same time, we can see an ever increasing on the top targets but
>> not necessarily an increase on the lower tiers over the entire three
>> months, but in the first two we see a significant increase in success
>> with stolen credit cards in general. In this case, the loss that we
>> captured (which probably isn't nearly the number captured by this forum)
>> was a little over 21,000 credit cards.
>>
>> Thought this might interest some, and if this is interesting, we are
>> going to be providing a graph of the losses of top targets with malware
>> in the upcoming weeks.
>>
>> Attached is the chart.
>>
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Lance James
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Author of 'Phishing Exposed'
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