It would be a small leap in some people's minds to go from stealing telephone connection time from a long distance company (by scanning through some access numbers and looking for valid ones) to using other acquired numbers (from carbons and stolen databases) to get free computer equipment and airline tickets. This, apparently, was the draw of Credit Card Fraud, where stolen credit card numbers were used to charge thousands of dollars for whatever a budding felon decided they wanted to risk years of jail time for.
Even now, there's really no justification or warm glow associated with credit card fraud, but the following files promote the cavalier and on-the-edge approach to this second, deeper level of using "codes".
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