Magnetic stripe readers and writers

[Majestic]

are these things worth the purchase? does anyone know if they are easy to work with ?

[Beyond]

Depends on what you're planning on doing.

[Majestic]

SWIM was planning on getting a job as a waiter or something else where i handle peoples credit cards and just copy then and gain the pin somehow (either by peeking at the code they put in or by cracking it on the card) , then make duplicates of there cards and take out money at machines

plausible?

[TheFallen]

personally you'd be far better off getting hi-res images of both sides of the card and then solely using it online for small purchases to PO Boxes. Big purchases will raise suspicion. And it's simple enough to get the images that you could theoretically get a lot of data.

I never likes credit card fraud, you're always fucking over a small guy somewhere, and there's so many structures to try and stop or limit it. Oh and it's REALLY easy to be dumb and get caught, all that temptation.

[Majestic]

eh, swim is weary with p.o. boxes as usually you need I.D. and pawn shops try to rip ya off for everything. swim just wants straight cash heh heh heh can't blame him tho! but this is the theory he had...

[TheFallen]

Nope. Straight money you'd need the actual card, either for cash back at supermarkets or ATMs. You can get away with not knowing the pin because of the signature, but I don't think you could do anything.