Jeff Wisnia wrote:

P.S. A couple of years ago UPS rang my doorbell and asked to drop off a
carton addressed to the house next door, to which I agreed. The
neighbor's house had been unoccupied and on the market for over a year
and the name the package was addressed to wasn't that of my departed
neighbors TThe return address was a sporting goods store half way across
the country. I figured some teen-agers were using swiped credit card
numbers to buy stuff and have it shipped to houses they knew weren't
being lived in, hoping UPS would leave the packages at the door so they
could swing by at night and grab them. I hooked a call to my
ex-neighbors and got their permission to get involved.

I called the company who'd shipped the carton and found out my
suspicions were spot on, and that there was a few hundred bucks worth of
paintball gear in that carton. I told them I'd take it to our office and
they could have UPS issue a "pull tag" and pick it up from there, which
they did. I spotted two more shipments from two other merchants sitting
on the neighbor's doorstep and did the same with those.

Sound's like those kids have been reading the Anarchist Cookbook's file
on credit card fraud. I remember it circulating while I was at school:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?...20Card%20Fraud

Chris