Police smash financial cyber crime gang
Pan-European cyber crime fighting agency EC3 has been hailed after Polish police arrested five Bulgarians accused of electronic payment card fraud targeting mainly UK citizens.
European policy body Europol said three of the gang were caught red-handed – two carrying out illegal electronic payment card transactions at automated teller machines (ATMs) and one in the act of receiving compromised card numbers online and encoding counterfeit plastic cards. The other two suspects were arrested in different hotels in Krakow in a series of co-ordinated swoops that took place almost simultaneously on 22 January.