Cops Smash International Credit Card Scam Ring
Police in the United States, Australia and across Europe have arrested 178 people in an effort to smash a fake credit card production operation that has netted more than £17 million.
The investigation, which included participants from 14 countries, centered in Spain, where police discovered 5,000 cloned cards and 120,000 stolen credit card numbers. Police arrested 76 people and dismantled six cloning labs as well.
Raids were conducted in Romania, France, Italy, Germany, Ireland and the United States and arrests were also made in Australia, Sweden, Greece, Finland and Hungary.
“They committed card fraud on a massive scale. We believe they may have obtained more than £16.5 million in benefits,” according to a Spanish police spokesman. “Sub-groups set up in each of the 14 countries where police have acted, formed part of a global criminal network. They falsified cards with numbers obtained fraudulently and used them to take money out of machines or buy goods in stores.”
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