Credit card and passport details being sold from Indian call centers for $9.50

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Credit card and passport details being sold from Indian call centers for $9.50

10-07-2006, 08:44 AM,

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Credit card and passport details being sold from Indian call centers for $9.50

Quote:An undercover TV investigation claims to have infiltrated criminal gangs selling thousands of U.K. credit card and passport details for as little as US$9.50 each from offshore call centers.

The "Dispatches" documentary, shown on U.K.'s Channel 4, follows a 12-month investigation. It included footage of middlemen offering an undercover reporter the credit card details gleaned from Indian call centers of 100,000 U.K. bank customers...

Mehta said in the case of recent high-profile incidents of Indian call center security breaches--such as that focused on bank HSBC--the criminals were identified and arrested within three weeks and are now awaiting trial. He also pointed to Indian initiatives such as a national registry designed to vet call center and IT workers and a regulatory body to improve the level of security in the industry...

full article: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0...643,00.htm

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