Carding is the trafficking and unauthorized use of stolen credit cards or credit card numbers. Stolen card data is typically used to purchase prepaid gift cards or other goods that can be resold, a step intended to cover the trail back to the original theft. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Classification
Offense GradeSerious or Indictable Offense 1 Connections
Sources
1. Carding (fraud) (Wikipedia)
18 U.S. Code section 1029 (Cornell LII)
Cornell Law School, Legal Information InstituteIn Group: Online Fraud and Payment Card Crime, Statute textQuote, In Group: Online Fraud and Payment Card Crime, Statute text
Whoever, (1) knowingly and with intent to defraud produces , uses, or traffics in one or more counterfeit access devices ;
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