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Police smash UK's biggest credit card fraud ring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Tue Sep 9 19:27:38 2003
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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:47:10 -0600
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
here is example of downloading the database ... but not (necessarily) over=
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the internet ... and not involving internet transactions.
not in general there is some amount of counterfeit cards going on from=20
skimming. There are even reports in the UK press ... of counterfeit=20
EMV (chip) "yes cards" being produced.
the initial "847" in the following seems a little inconsistent 2m to 20m in=
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fraud ... maybe it was 8 thousand or 80 thousand ... not 847
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32704.html
Police smash UK's biggest credit card fraud ring
By Drew Cullen
Posted: 08/09/2003 at 13:14 GMT
Three men are facing long jail sentences after pleading guilty, Friday=20
(Sept. 5) to running the UK's biggest ever credit card fraud at Middlesex=20
Guildhall Crown Court.
The trio stole details of 847 cards of Heathrow Express rail passengers who=
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had paid for their journey by credit cards. They passed on the infor a gang=
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of forgers who cloned 8,790 credit cards for use in the UK and on the=20
Continent. The cloners were able to use only 10 per cent of the numbers,=20
pocketing =A32m for the gang. Police estimate that the gang could have=
gained=20
=A320m if all the credit card numbers had been used.
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