Identity Theft Gang creates hundreds of fake IDs, sells on eBay, gets BUSTED!!!

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Identity Theft Gang creates hundreds of fake IDs, sells on eBay, gets BUSTED!!!

12-01-2006, 10:59 AM,

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Identity Theft Gang creates hundreds of fake IDs, sells on eBay, gets BUSTED!!!

Quote:One of the world's most successful identity theft gangs who defrauded bank account holders in Britain, America and several European countries out of millions of pounds were behind bars tonight.

The gang created hundreds of false identities and used huge numbers of cloned credit cards to buy electrical goods, which were later sold on the website eBay.

Police believe the lucrative international operation could have been running for 10 years and generated millions of pounds for the members...

Cloned credit cards were used to buy cameras, computers, iPods, computer games, Royal Mint coin collection sets and other goods such as Liverpool FC strips from a variety of website traders. These items were then auctioned on eBay...

full article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,...44,00.html

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