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The Judicial Police (PJ) announced today six men suspected of practicing criminal conspiracy in counterfeiting of credit and debit cards in the North.
North, six men allegedly caught in the act, allegedly responsible for the crimes of "criminal association, counterfeiting of securities considered as currency, computer fraud and computer fraud in several cities of the metropolitan area of Porto" Suspects , at least since last May, manufactured and installed their own ATMs, apparently from the Euronet network . the reading of the magnetic stripe of the credit / debit cards used therein, as well as the making, by video recording, of the codes .
According to the information of this judicial authority, the magnetic data were cloned into "white" cards that were later "] used by the suspects for their own benefit, the acquisition of goods and services, and the value of fraud is not yet quantified, but can be estimated at several tens of thousands of euros, injuring cardholders and banks "
More about a hundred "white" cards were also seized, some of which were still seized. without their cloning and others already correctly cloned, as well as various computer equipment necessary for
Inmates aged 25 to 43 years old will be present at the competent judicial authority for the first interrogation and l '; enforcement of coercive measures, if any.
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