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carder

carder

9.6
A person who steals credit card numbers to use or sell
  • noun
  • /ˈkɑrdər/
  • Jargon
translation icon : estafador de tarjetas
  • Many carders operate online, making it hard to catch them.
  • carder forums

Examples

  • The company warned customers about the risk of carder attacks targeting their payment systems.

  • The police arrested a carder for using stolen credit card information.

  • Police arrested a well-known carder who had stolen thousands of credit card numbers online.

  • Many carders operate in secret forums to trade stolen financial information.

  • The police arrested a group of carders who were selling stolen credit card information on the dark web.

  • Authorities are cracking down on carders who use stolen credit cards to make fraudulent purchases.

  • In online forums, carders exchange tactics for stealing credit card information from unsuspecting victims.

Synonyms

swindler
vscarder
15 5.4

A person who tricks people to take their money

focuses specifically on stealing and trading card information for fraud
skimmer
vscarder
  • NSFW
3 8.6

A device or person that steals card details from payment machines

works with stolen card data to use sell or commit fraud

Antonyms

law-abiding
63 3.4

Following the law and not breaking rules

Surface Forms

carder singular
carders plural

Morphology

carder = card (semi-transparent) = card + er

The agentive suffix '-er' is clear, but the fraud-specific sense is specialized slang and not fully predictable from the base verb alone.

Etymology

Carder is modern slang built from card ('credit card') plus the ending -er, meaning a person. So a carder is someone who steals, uses, or sells credit card details.