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	<title>Thiefhunters in Paradise</title>
	
	<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters</link>
	<description>or, High and Dry on the Streets of Elsewhere</description>
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		<title>Skimmers and credit card fraud (more)</title>
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		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/07/credit-card-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Skimmers, officially called magnetic card readers, capture the data on a card&#8217;s magnetic strip. Exactly what information is that?
Credit and debit cards have three &#8220;tracks&#8221; of data. Track 1 stores your name, account number and expiration date, and discretionary data to verify the PIN and security code. This information goes to the point of sale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-tech identity theft today</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/j3MqjUfkmwI/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/new-skimmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thieves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[• Identity theft is now the number one crime in the world.
• Las Vegas is number one in the U.S. for ID theft; even though it&#8217;s estimated that only 20% of the crimes are reported.
• The FBI estimates that seven out of every ten stolen dollars ends up in Las Vegas. There&#8217;s more money in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apology</title>
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		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/apology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, everyone, for the previous article, Traveling with luggage. It was posted accidentally, out of order. The next article in my credit card fraud and identity theft series is coming soon.
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		<title>Traveling with luggage</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/R9jiuWgThgk/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/luggage-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Advisory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carry-on]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luggage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel.state.gov]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1083</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m sure it sounds obsessive to mention the necessity of onboard watchfulness when you fly. The likelihood of theft while on an aircraft is low, granted; but it’s unpredictable, and that’s the problem. If you’re carrying valuables, say cash, jewelry, even credit cards, you may as well continue with your precautions. The risks are to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skimmers for credit card fraud</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/szUJQrqzadI/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/skimmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Advisory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thieves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity theft]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
A little background, as reference for my next post:
A skimmer is a battery-operated device smaller than a deck of cards with a slot for swiping credit cards. It reads and stores data embedded in the magnetic strip on the back of the card. Restaurant waiters are the typical recruit, given the contraption and requested to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ID theft buffet</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/YVGo3v3Aqcs/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/id-theft-buffet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thieves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
A former mortgage broker put 40 boxes of customers&#8217; personal information into a Las Vegas dumpster. It was December 2006, but we all knew enough about identity theft already to know better.  The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003, effective in 2005, requires the proper disposal of consumer report information and records, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street crime in Lisbon</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/_AJxpiKbvzc/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/lisbon-street-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[thieves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pickpocket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thiefhunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourist crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thieves are thick on Lisbon&#8217;s two main tourist trams, 15 and 28. Within five minutes of arriving at a tram stop for #28, we&#8217;d pegged a pair of pickpockets. One carried a flat messenger bag and a newspaper, the other carried a jacket in the sweltering heat.
They stood well away from the gathering crowd waiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drink-drugging on the rise</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/kPdUHXwufzA/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/drink-drugging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robbery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theft]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Drink-drugging as a means to theft and/or sex is not new, but on the rise. It&#8217;s increasing in Colombia and known to be an M.O. in Russia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Ecuador, and many other countries. I didn&#8217;t expect to see Tokyo on the list, but there it is. Sad. 
I forgot where I heard this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel security in the hands of housekeeping staff</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/5n03uFe2w8E/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/hotel-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thieves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Loot &#8216;n scoot: Through my police friends, I learned of another devious M.O. resulting in theft from hotel rooms.  The thief simply poses as a guest. Wearing pool attire, she enters a hotel room that has a housekeeping cart at the door, as if she&#8217;s just returning to her own room from the pool. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Microsoft conference in Slovenia</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/zYe4POXP2P8/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/slovenia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bob Arno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Slovene driver sped along the autostrade, disco crackling on the radio, fast-chomping gum, taking and making phone calls as if he runs another business. Beautiful coastline, like Italy next door. Construction in progress everywhere. Violet lupine and red-orange poppies brilliant along grassy roadsides. 
The driver dropped us at Grand Hotel St. Bernardin in Portoroz. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street crime in Buenos Aires</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/cIbQLayfa8Y/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/buenos-aires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[thieves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pigeon poop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Kane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel.state.gov]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When my friend, Stephen Kane, described what he witnessed on a recent afternoon in Buenos Aires, I begged him to write it down for me. Following is his account.
Bad action in Buenos Aires
Prior to my first visit to Buenos Aires I was warned about the mustard/ketchup gag. As you&#8217;re walking, carrying a shoulder bag, someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Arno on competitive intelligence</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/H7Nu3oEEoNQ/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/competitive-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Arno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bob Arno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Competitive intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kevin mitnick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I (@bobarno) recently wrote about my reluctance to use Twitter and the pros and cons of sharing information with everyone who might be a follower. Not about the benefits of twittering, which I fully appreciate and understand, but about my own reservations and the extent of my own involvement. My concerns were competitive intelligence repercussions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small pleasures on the road</title>
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		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/05/small-pleasures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A travel snafu brought us to Homer, Alaska, where the best joint in town is the Bidarka Inn. Population 5,454; minus children, that would just about make up one audience for us. We generally enjoy these unexpected opportunities to explore places off the beaten track. As long as the unplanned stops don&#8217;t impact a commitment. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial flight; no security</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/JAxBn8uNvTA/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/05/commercial-flight-no-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 23:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plane]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We flew from Anchorage to Homer on Alaska Airlines flight 4878, operated by ERA Aviation. No TSA. No screening; none at all. Liquids? Okay! Weapons? Whatever you want! Just check your large roll-ons and climb aboard, big boots &#8216;n all.. 20 seats. Open seating, open cockpit.

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		<title>Sloppy business at UPS</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThiefhuntersInParadise/~3/c8OIz572qdc/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/05/sloppy-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 20:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incompetence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Four days away from an international trip and Bob and I have no passports. Scary. They were perfectly good and valid still for five years, until they were punctured and made invalid by Federal agents in Los Angeles. The only thing wrong with them was that they had too little space for new immigration stamps. [...]]]></description>
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