I had an acquaintance once, maybe even a friend. Nobody knew his first or last name, everyone just called him Izya. It’s not really known how it started. Some say that it came from the English word “easy”, some think that it’s a Jewish name (abbr. from Israel), yet others suggest that it actually came from the Saint-Petersburg abbreviation SPb (if you look at the English/Russian keyboard and notice how English letters match the Russian ones, then you get “ûçè”, which kinda sounds like “Izya”), but even Izya himself probably does not exactly know how it came about anymore. His nickname replaced his last name. Piterskiy. So there he was, Izya Piterskiy, a carder, who always had a pile of cash and never thought about tomorrow. His favorite catchphrase was “Even Alla Borisovna (Pugacheva) says that you have to live by the present, and she hasn’t just heard it on the grapevine!”.
   But, one of these gloomy St. Petersburg days Izya disappeared. That happened to him, he could disappear for a week or even for two. But this time when he was gone, I thought it was forever. I had all kinds of thoughts about his fate, starting from arrest and ending with murder or an accident.
   But then just a bit over a year has passed and I got this unusual number on my caller ID. It was Izya! He said that he missed me a lot, but it was going to be a long time until we get to see each other again. He was alright and he was through with carding. All my questions were met with a rather strange response:
   — Once in a few days, I will send you one letter. Whether you are going to publish them or not – you decide. Just make sure they reach those who need them or are simply curious. And now I am ready to put these letters forth before your judgment. I only edited them a bit, so that you can better understand this mysterious and beckoning though at the same time dangerous and criminally punishable world of carding.

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