Greek police arrest alleged Internet fraudster preying on US bank accounts
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Greek police have arrested a 43 year-old man suspected of lifting the bank details of US citizens over the Internet and stealing over 60,000 dollars (49,600 euros) from their accounts in the past year.
A police raid on the suspect's apartment at the port of Piraeus on Wednesday yielded some 4,000 printed pages of personal bank details downloaded from the Internet, a police source told AFP on Thursday.
The man identified by Greek media as Dimitris Kadas had been briefly jailed for credit card fraud in Houston in 1987 before being deported to Greece.
In the past 18 months, he is suspected of having preyed on the bank accounts of over 300 US citizens, and the authorities believe that he may have conducted withdrawals of over 355,000 dollars (293,700 euros).
posted by Fergie @ 7/14/2005 07:09:00 AM
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