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Scotland: Police Break £1M Credit Card Fraud Linked to Terrorism

Simon Bain writes in The Herald:

Police in Scotland have uncovered petrol station credit card frauds with a potential value of £1m, linked to international terrorism.

Banks, oil companies and police forces throughout the country are on alert after 5000 cards were copied and their details stolen at two Edinburgh filling stations. A further attempt on a filling station in Kilmarnock was discovered before card details were stolen.

Detectives say the attacks were carried out by hired operatives of an international network. They are the first organised stings of their kind in Scotland, and one of the first to be attributed by police in the UK to a new wave of terrorist fundraising.

posted by Fergie @ 4/20/2008 05:24:00 PM