They live on the edge and take a few calculated risks and it is the mail-order CD clubs that are their prey. After the CDs are acquired, our scammers can sell them to resale shops. Contraband CDs are also used as holiday and birthday gifts for friends and family, and to build extensive collections of music for the scammer. The typical CD scammer is around college age and lives in an urban environment. The typical CD scammer is around college age and lives in an urban environment.
Cities provide a certain anonymity that our scammer needs.
That and the ability to be mobile are his prime requirements. A guy who lives on a desolate country road miles from the nearest neighbor is probably not someone who would be scamming CD clubs, at least not successfully. Getting busted is always a possibility, but that is part of living on the edge, part of being a scammer, and that may be part of the attraction to that kind of lifestyle. In addition, realistically, the odds of our scammer getting busted are low. Part of the reason for this is that nobody really cares if these big mail-order CD clubs are scammed.