11 Jul 2016

105 busted in global credit card fraud

What do the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Malaysia all have in common?
If you answered "a Credit Card syndicate which was disrupted by Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3)" then you are correct.

The Organized Criminal Group (OCG) which was creating and abusing counterfeit credit cards all across Europe and in Malaysia recently had 3,000 counterfeit cards confiscated along with jewelry, cash, and fake passports.  

OCG was created in Malaysia and has been committing credit card fraud schemes by abusing less secure locations for shopping such as duty-free shops in airports and electronic stores and buying high priced ticket items.  Through cooperation of American Express with the EC3 and local law enforcement around the globe, the investigation running since end of 2015 was able to successfully capture 105 suspects.

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