Spain arrests suspects of money laundering in bitcoins
Spanish police arrested 35 fraud suspects by falsifying bank cards and laundering money with btc, among other computer crimes
A group of 35 suspects were arrested in Spain for alleged crimes of falsification of bank cards and money laundering in the bitcoin cryptocurrency. This was reported last Friday by the police to the newspaper La Verdad.
The police report indicates that the criminal group obtained more than € 600,000 (USD 674,000) and incurred the laundering of more than € 1 million (USD 1.2 million) with bitcoins.
The Police Command of the city of Alicante reported that during the operation it managed to solve a total of 1,020 connected crimes. The actions of the suspects – from Equatorial Guinea, Spain, Nigeria, Cameroon and Morocco – affected a total of 219 victims in Spain and 20 more victims in Israel, Denmark, Germany, France and Greece.
The police detected “the unauthorized use of 104 bank cards in Spain and in 12 more countries.” The investigations were motivated by a complaint filed by a car rental company that detected the unauthorized use of their bank cards in online services.”
The attack modality included phishing by email (pretending to be a reliable person and requesting bank credentials), the cloning of physical cards and the theft of card receipt credentials or credit card fraud by bin (bank identification number).
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Source: The Bitcoin Times
