Turks arrested for credit-card forgery

SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012
Turks arrested for credit-card forgery

A Turkish gang has been arrested for forging credit cards, inflicting a total loss of about Bt100 million.

Police told a press conference Saturday that they had arrested the three Turkish men in Bangkok and seized 58 credit cards and 333 other cards that were used to make forged credit cards, Bt527,000 cash, data saving machine and electronic card printing machine.
Police said the head of the gang in France had hacked into credit-card customers’ data and e-mailed them the victims’ data to save in the forged
credit card.
Most of the victims were in Britain, Germany, Denmark, Norway, India and Thailand.

The Nation