133 detained in global action tackling airline fraud

On 3 and 4 November 2015 law enforcement agencies from across the world, supported by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), joined forces with the airline, travel and payment card industries in a major concerted operation to combat online fraud in the airline sector.

The operation was organised globally through coordination centres at Europol in The Hague and AMERIPOL in Bogota (National Police of Colombia – Cybercrime Centre Police and Federal Police of Mexico) and Canada. Some 35 airlines and 32 countries were involved in this initiative, which took place at 109 airports across the world.

The coordinated Global Airline Action Day targeted criminals suspected of fraudulently purchasing plane tickets online using stolen or fake credit card data. Rapid increases in this Internet – facilitated crime have left millions of innocent people affected every year whilst the banking, airline and travel industries have suffered huge financial losses as a direct result.

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