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500,000 Euros defrauded in credit card scam based in Puerto Banús
By h.b. - Jul 23, 2008 - 8:24 AM
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Some of the cloned cards and other items siezed by police in Puerto Banús - Photo National Police /EFE
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Some victims saw false charges on their credit card accounts of as much as 30,000 Euros.
National Police based in Marbella have arrested five people in connection with a massive credit card fraud. The five face charges of continued fraud and all of them work in a mobile phone company in Puerto Banús where credit cards were taken and cloned.

Investigations started a year ago with the police detecting hundreds of fraudulent credit card operations. Some of the cloned cards found charges as high as 30,000 € being added to the account fraudulently. The total amount defrauded has been estimated to be 500,000 €.


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