How do scammers actually get away with..

they do get caught sort of....theres not much they can do if they get caught.
What happens is people know the Credit card was stolen and used but they cant find out who took it.

Don't even bother man. Banks, Creidtors, and Pay-Pay sucks! Ill never use any again. Some-how when I was on ebay before someone hacked into my account and stole my info and ran up $3,000 worth of stuff getting sent to her house. And yeah I got most of the money back, its just the point ill never use it again.

Yes, the IP can be traced. However in most cases, they are at a coffee shop using the free WiFi, or they go to a Library and do their dirty work using public accessed ip's. The most that could be traced in this situation is the ip and where that ip was at that particular time. Keep in mind ip addresses are dynamic and change periodically. You might keep one ip for 6 months and sometimes you might change ip's every time you log in. So in turn, if traced, it would come back to this ip was being used at such and such coffee shop on certain given date, tracking after that would be minimal depending on circumstances.

As far as Mail Scammers go, such as the ones that send you a check for 4000, when the ammount was supposed to be $400, they tell you to keep 400 plus another 100-200 for your troubles, and mail the cash back to them. They want it either western union or ups, both of which are untrackable. Western Union can be claimed at any western union location. So say you wanted to send a wire to Fred in New York, Fred is your scammer, well he lives in Oregon, so he gets that account # or whatever it is and goes to his local western union and gets his money, all he has to do is verify who it came from.

With UPS you can have it sent from Texas to Pennsylvania, and once it his tracking coming out of Dallas, scammer takes the tracking # and requests it to be rerouted to a pick up location and picks it up when it arrives. On these, with the fake checks they send you, they look like real checks from a business or somewhere, bank will cash it for you, but in about 3-7 days, you'll get a call from your bank saying you owe them $4000 plus a hot check fee. You are out $3500 and the scammer gets the money without a trace.

I don't think theirs a perfect answer, honestly.

Watch Bad Santa, really, the guy grabs a couple different sets of keys. All which have electric lock. He finds which he wants, pops the glove compartment, and find the registration. More importantly the house keys are on the car. So this guy has all he needs and more for a quick heist.

The world is scam city, there's really no way of safe-guarding yourself from it.

Bend the credit card into pieces and throw it in the bin or shredder. Credit Card is Bad for you use Debit Card or so.

You say banana, I say bandana.

So what makes Debit christly, and Credit the devil's payment plan?

While we're at it, what's the difference between a topic and thread? Is it what's discussed or what you call the discussion?

Actually, it's the complete opposite. Think of this: If someone gets your credit card info, they spend all the money, and then you have to get t all sorted out with the credit card company. But they're not spending your money, they're spending the credit card company's money. Thus, the credit card company might actually try and help you, as they want their money. However, if you use a debit card, which is directly connected to your bank account, if someone gets hold of that information, they can easily wipe out your bank account, and no one will do anything about it.