ATM skimming gang busted
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Bulgarian and Spanish law enforcement officers have busted an international crime ring stealing card numbers from ATM machines worldwide, authorities in Sofia said yesterday.
Twenty-five people were arrested in Bulgaria, Spain and Hungary in a massive police operation coordinated by Europe’s law-enforcement and judicial agencies Europol and Eurojust, Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security said.
The operation started in September 2012 in Madrid when police uncovered card-reading devices implanted in ATMs that stole people’s card numbers and secret PIN codes in order to later withdraw money using counterfeit cards.
Investigators tracked down the Bulgarian mastermind and busted two labs preparing the skimming devices and fake cards in the eastern city of Varna and in Plovdiv, in central Bulgaria.
The group has withdrawn more than one million euros from ATMs in Spain alone, while also active in Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the United States, and in Latin America and Asia.
The probe is yet to establish how much money it managed to steal worldwide.
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