Miami-Dade police seek victims in credit card fraud bust

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

Miami-Dade police seek victims in credit card fraud bust

Investigators from the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Economic Crimes Bureau are working to confirm the identities of the credit card victims believed to be targeted by a crime ring that was busted Thursday in southwest Miami-Dade County. Police said 100 gift cards encoded with stolen credit card numbers were found at one of the three properties that were targeted in the investigation. They said the credit card information was lifted from gas station skimmers. Local 10 News investigative reporter Christina Vazquez was with detectives from the bureau’s Organized Fraud Intelligence Squad Thursday when the discovery was made. “Basically, anything that contains a magnetic strip can be re-encoded with a victim’s credit card information. Every credit card is one victim. We have over 105 victims in this one case alone,” Economic Crimes Bureau Detective Marcos Rodriguez said. In this case, detectives said the stolen credit card numbers were being used to purchase diesel fuel. “Steal fuel and then sell it to truck drivers,” Sgt. Leo Fuentes said. They also found four black cables that may be related to skimmers that are still out there. “These cables are, basically, cables that come in the package in which skimmers are bought. They buy these […]

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