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May 2, 2007
NEWS: U.K. Scam Ring Caught
Five individuals believed to be
instrumental to the ‘largest credit card scam’
on British soil were caught by police, and
pleaded guilty yesterday. The quintet, who are
accused of having plotted the intricacies of a
£17 million credit card scam, had already begun
to spend some of their ill-gotten gains on
overseas property, investment opportunities, and
vacations abroad, say police. Their capture was
to the credit of British Transport Police, who
nabbed one of the crooks at the Paddington Metro
station with over forty prepaid mobile top-up
cards conveniently loaded with others’ credit
card details. The BTP were, at press time,
unaware of the nationality of some of the
members of the crime ring.
The crooks led police on quite a chase over the
course of the year-and-a-half during which they
were at large, using pseudonyms and fake
documentation to elude authorities. They were
ultimately foiled in London, and their
possessions were searched. Overall, the gang
members manufactured some 32,000 fake credit
cards – the amount traced by police. Police also
found the equipment used to make the cards.
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