At first seems wildly overly complicated for a laptop.
But sounds like they're trying to scale up credit card fraud using the layers as buffer
But sounds like they're trying to scale up credit card fraud using the layers as buffer
Yes, and also discourage law enforcement. AFAIK, $800 is a relatively small potatoes theft. New York is across state lines, and I reported it to the local police (who said the jurisdictional issues would make it a lot more complicated). The only person who's involved that I know of was is a little fish likely was there to take most of the risk to protect the masterminds (and likely doesn't know anything about them, anyway), so going after him probably won't accomplish much, anyway.
My guess is they'll get away with this until the feds get involved.