[Indeed, consumer financial fraud has been around as long as checking accounts and credit cards, and banks already do plenty to stop fraud. But e-commerce has opened virgin criminal frontiers.] In the past, everything was much more traceable, ... Now you can open 10,000 (bogus) accounts in the time it used to take to open one, all in a faceless Internet.


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