Every year, sophisticated credit card scammers and identity thieves exploit an arsenal of Machiavellian digital tools to wreak havoc in the lives of millions of unsuspecting individuals.

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Although the tools of communication and financial privacy are granting the small thieves an unprecedented ability to carry out their business with impunity, the large thieves that have so far been able to hide in the bureaucratic shadows of governments and large corporations are finding themselves more and more thrown into the limelight.

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