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Submitted by Templar Titan on Wed, 06/09/2004 - 15:21.

By: Dmitri Kramarenko


As CCRC informed, in Odessa, Ukraine, officers of Organized Crime Department
arrested three young men attempting to illegally withdraw big sum of money
from the accounts of the world famous bank through an ATM using counterfeit
plastic cards.

According to initial data, malefactors repeatedly withdrew big sums from
accounts by using access to accounts of one of foreign banks, having stolen
more than half million USD. "Hackers" withdrew 10-40 thousand USD from
accounts of their victims per one time. A criminal case was initiated by
fact of fraud. 61 counterfeit cards, 135 blanks, more than 20 thousand USD
and more than 20 thousand UAH were seized from swindlers during search.
Besides law enforcement seized a device designed for plotting information to
magnetic streaks of the cards.

Odessa region Police investigative office plans to bring a criminal case on
criminal activity using counterfeit payment cards as a mean to access bank
accounts to the court by mid-July, informed Alexei Orlov, Investigative
Office at Odessa Police Department the First Deputy Chief and Special Crimes
Unit Chief.

He said that the indictment will be in its final formulation by the moment
of delivery to regional prosecutor's office. At present it is based on the
fact that carders were detained trying to withdraw money from a bank account
using counterfeit cards, said Alexei Orlov.

"Criminal Research Center at Police Office has already completed an
examination of the first 240 counterfeit cards and confirmed the fact that
criminals used these cards. Now payment cards are delivered to Forensic
Research Institute at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine", hr outlined. He
marked out that 200 more cards and equipment seized from the suspects are
being examined in the Ministry.



Source: http://www.crime-research.org/news/04.06.2004/316
 
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