Incompetent fraudster appear to be even more dangerous than competent ones. Credit card details of over 19,000 individuals were posted to the Internet by online criminals in a botched identity theft scheme. It appears that they intended to sell the credit card details and accompanying identities, but posted them to the public instead. Because they were in the public domain, all of this information was available through a simple Google search. Details of the credit card fraud scheme were reported by the Telegraph.

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