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Credit Card Data Over AOL IM

From the files of “too good to make up”, DavidJ.org reports a story from a couple of years ago about his credit card data being sent over AOL Instant Messenger. Essentially he bought some merchandise at a shot which didn’t have a point of sale terminal so the clerk was IMing all credit card data to a friend who had one who would then run the credit card info for him.
[Via NoticeBored]