Matt Barrow wrote:

Interestingly enough, as common as this scam is, and as easy to track,
there's but a handful of prosecutions each year in the US.

I had my debit card number stolen from a vendor employee in Disneyland and my
checking account emptied of $2800 for,

get this.....

Wal-Mart and Target gift cards.

The scumbags ordered 'em online in the span of 90 min. ( I know 'cuz the
detectives working on this were quite informative).
The thing is, the local law enforcement were able to track down where the
likely scum were by tracing several PO boxes and fake box owners to a final
resident in Duarte, CA.

LA County Sherriffs said they simply had little time to execute and arrest in
these cases. Bigger fish to fry, basically.
Really didn't matter. My bank covered the losses but goes to show ya how ID
theft prosecution goes.

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