Gangs on the Dark Web: Credit Card Scammers

Credit card fraud has been on the rise for about a decade. In 2016 alone, losses topped 24 billion worldwide, half of which affected cardholders in the US. With a virtually unlimited amount of money to be made scamming, some techsavvy criminals have turned ripping off credit card numbers into a fulltime gig. VICE met up with a scammer for an inside look at the shady underground profession. He walked us through the process, showing us how he buys stolen accounts on the dark web, prints pilfered numbers