This National Police stoped Benidorm two persons presumed to be members of a criminal organization committed by “phishing”, To steal credit card numbers and security codes (CVV), and after the cards were cloned, they cashed out at casinos or bought luxury watches in the city of Benidorm. Thanks to this scam 50,000 Euro booty Fifty fraudulent moves with cloned cards, according to the City Police Department.
The investigation began after a series of complaints in which the criminals’ “working styles” conflicted.. Victims received a text message from their bank asking them to enter their personal information and all credit card related information. It wasn’t really his bank, but getting his credit card information to clone was a scam.
The victims began to see fraudulent charges in their bank accounts and turned to the National Police for help. HE Alicante Economic and Financial Crimes Group took charge of the investigations and tracked down the fraudulent activities until he found two members of the organization, the 31 and 37-year-olds, who had been arrested in Benidorm and were linked to at least fifty criminal acts.
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The police searched the house where they intervened, mobile phone and two SIM cards this comes at the expense of analysis to locate more victims and illuminate more cybercrime.
National Police advise citizens Do not give any bank information over the phoneSuch as credit or debit card number, passwords or account number that can be used by 3rd parties to commit such crimes, because banking institutions as a rule do not ask their customers for such data over the phone for security.