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Police have arrested dozens of suspects in an international
investigation into a cybercrime gang that siphoned millions of euros from victims'
accounts in an identity fraud scam.
European Union justice
agency, Eurojust, announced Wednesday that 49 suspects, most of them from Nigeria
and Cameroon, were arrested a day earlier in an investigation by Italian,
Spanish and Polish police supported by officers in Belgium, Britain and
Georgia.
EU police agency Europol
helped coordinate 58 searches during Tuesday's operation. Eurojust says in a
statement that investigations showed that cybercriminals had defrauded victims
of 6 million euros (US$6.8 million) and transferred it out of Europe.
The fraud involved stealing
victims' data such as usernames and passwords, in a process known as phishing,
and diverting money from them and their customers.
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