Laptops4now.com is not your typical dot.com. If fact it was designed to go out of business in one week. That's how long online credit card watchdog CardCops.com intended it to live...just long enough to catch hackers and carders.

"We turned the laptop site on Wed May 29th at 5:00 PM. After telling specific underground invite only carder chat rooms that Laptops4now loosely shipped anywhere, we received 16 orders using stolen credit cards totaling over $27,000 in a 12 hour period," said Dan Clements CEO for CardCops.com

With the design of Laptops4now purposely amateurish and the security shoddy, the thieves took the bait. The next day 5 bogus orders were shipped to the carders. "The orders came from foreign IP's and had United States drops as shipping address's", stated Patrick Granahan CTO of CardCops.com "Upon emailing the UPS tracking number to the customer/carder, 4 of the 5 re-ordered Friday night. The greed had set in".

As reported daily, hacks of people's personal information and credit card information is running rapid. CardCops.com has decided to take action to let the underground know that E-commerce will fight back. You cannot sit back and wait for hackers and carders to attack. Simply put...you will not catch them. The only way to consistently catch and deter them is to set "baited" traps, explained Clements.

Granahan further says, we need to make the U.S citizens who are picking up the stolen merchandise so paranoid to go to the shipping address that the foreign carders can't find anyone foolish enough to be their mule. Enough government red tape, the new cybercrime laws have been passed, lets use them.

"This sting has yielded a tremendous amount of information on how fast carders can attack reputable merchants with fraudulent orders", says Keath Nupuf of Secure Net Labs, the company hired to do the tracking. "Foreign IP's, email address's, drop address's, and site scan origins, were all captured as part of the project", explained Nupuf.

CardCops believes the association of this data will lead to the identity and arrest of global hackers and carders. The orders and all of the fraudulent data has been turned over to National Law Enforcement. "We have received the data and are investigating", states Don Masters, United States Secret Service Agent based in Los Angeles.