A waiter stealing credit card numbers has a good chance of being caught eventually. I assume the credit card companies do some basic data mining on their stolen card database, and if card numbers start getting stolen shortly after dining at a particular establishment then they'll track this down.
I googled "waiter stealing credit card numbers" and here's an example from today's news of some folks who got caught:
On the other hand if you have a radio scanner and are picking up numbers going over the air from tow truck companies there's no traceable link between you and anything in the database.
No, but there'd be a link to tow-truck companies in your area, and perhaps their not-exactly-PCI-compliant handling of credit-card numbers would be exposed.
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A waiter stealing credit card numbers has a good chance of being caught eventually. I assume the credit card companies do some basic data mining on their stolen card database, and if card numbers start getting stolen shortly after dining at a particular establishment then they'll track this down.
I googled "waiter stealing credit card numbers" and here's an example from today's news of some folks who got caught:
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0510/739156.html
On the other hand if you have a radio scanner and are picking up numbers going over the air from tow truck companies there's no traceable link between you and anything in the database.
No, but there'd be a link to tow-truck companies in your area, and perhaps their not-exactly-PCI-compliant handling of credit-card numbers would be exposed.
Who says it would be in your area though? You could travel the country and probably find hundreds of instances of this sort of thing happening.