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Early last month, a young computer programmer was arrested on a charge of credit-card fraud. He had allegedly hacked into many card accounts through the Internet just to pay for entertainment such as movie tickets. Police had taken some time to track down the culprit and finally nabbed him one day as he was getting a ticket from a dispensing machine at a theatre in central Bangkok. Its ironic how this man must have used some exceptional computer skills to commit such a crime, whereas some devious petrol-pump workers need only to be able to imitate signatures to rip off customers who pay for fuel by credit card. Full Story