The US and Romania, a Perfect Team
It looks like Romanians and US citizens are really great at teaming, regardless of their intentions. While a team of 22 Romanians and 9 Americans got together to create a credit and debit card fraud ring, the US and Romanian authorities, helped by other countries, collaborated on catching them. SecurityFocus covered the story, but their numbers are a bit blurry. They speak of 33 individuals being charged on this issue, but for the live of me I can’t tell who the other 2 are. Maths mistake or 2 more of different citizenship?
The members of the fraud gang allegedly used spam e-mail messages to get their victims to visit a fake website, where they were urged to enter in financial details. The U.S. members of the group used the gathered information to create counterfeit credit and debit cards, then stealing millions of dollars from thousands of cards.
“International organized crime poses a serious threat not only to the United States and Romania, but to all nations,” Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip said during a press conference in Romania, according to a statement announcing the indictment. “Criminals who exploit the power and convenience of the Internet do not recognize national borders; therefore our efforts to prevent their attacks cannot end at our borders either.”
