In message <9211280427.AA21844@rchilder.us.oracle.com> you write:

"Using the net, the 'banker' could easily be 'offshore' and not subject to US law in these matters."

Feds busted some folks doing just this with modems in Puerto Rico, I think it was, within the past year ... heard it on NPR, maybe it was BBC or CBC ...

-- richard

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