Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

Fri Jun 25 06:56:02 UTC 2004

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:27:32 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
>>  It is the same way credit reporting works: you mess up, you get no>>  credit.
>	Except then you can generate yet another fake credit card and go 
>on with your life.  Do that a few thousand times a day, even -- no >problem.
>	The credit reporting scheme only works against people who are 
>willing to play by the rules.  Even then, it only hurts the 
>legitimate credit card holders who don't know how to fight the system.
>>  Come on guys, you are all smart engineers.   This is not rocket science.
>
>	See above.  Credit card fraud is a multi-billion dollar business. 
>When the credit card companies have figured out this problem, maybe 
>we can apply similar techniques to the spam problem.

Please, this is trivial.  You have to prove your personal identity.  What many
firms do is to require a bank to certify it.  

The credit card thievery to which you refer is done anonymously; not relevant here