Credit cards have 16 numbers when issued from a bank branch all first twelve numbers are the exact same only the final 4 are different. So I got a algorithm extrapolator to create the last 4 numbers. This was before the days of ccv2 etc.
Any site that had verisign was a go, I'd order DVD sets of say star trek the next generation, get like 6 seasons and throw on eBay for 600.
I had like 4 empty houses around in my area and my friend had a fake id an that name was use for packages that need to be signed , every day packages would come into a empty house , the ones near me I took up a job delivering newspapers so no one would suspect as every day I'd go deliver papers and get my packages before those folks came home from work.
I was doing this for like 2 years , easy money get DVDs like star trek, or band of brothers was selling for 100 bucks same with black adder.
I got caught because my greedy ass friend at the time ordered a digital camera and the folks were home that day and then my friend went and rang the doorbell they called the cops and the cops arrested him and he sang like a bee, however the cops waited like a month, I bought a new computer threw out my old one, and one day while walking to school a unmarked police car picked me up.
They took my computer, I went to court for almost like 9 months then was offered a 200 dollar fine or community service I took te community service twenty hours.
Cops were idiots they did not know the full scale what was going on , they were grilling me what's irc etc and these fraud detectives . I honestly could have won the case as the digital camera order was traced to a uk ip as we always used proxies ordering from tr library but because I got away doing so much dirty and was afraid they'd dig deeper and my friend would flip more I just took it