Wow, is this true?
How can anybody protect themselves from this kind of fraud if your cc info can be given to any Tom and Dick who can shell out $5k for a complete list of it?
Scary.
It's now 2004 and this scheme was pulled off in 1998. He'll be out in 11 years (likely earlier if he is illegible for parole) and he'll be living like a king in the Galapagos Islands with the money he stashed away.