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The Face of Credit Card Fraud

by Terrence O'Brien on June 21, 2007 at 05:07 PM


While monitoring an underground chat room known to be a warehouse for stolen credit card info, the Internet security firm CardCops came upon a credit card thief completely unaware that he himself had been duped. A chat user calling himself "Supra" was documented trying to sell the personal info belonging to Herman Munster. Not the actor who played Herman Munster -- the fictional character, complete with his fictional address, 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

According to CardCops, "Supra" wasn't trying to sell fake information, but believed the details he had to be real – something made possible, no doubt, by the fact that he was logged in from overseas. Said Dan Clements, president of CardCops, "He's probably not watching any reruns of 'The Munsters' on TV Land."

From USA Today

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Tags: herman munster, HermanMunster, identity theft, IdentityTheft, security

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