The New York City Police Department recently reported the break up of an international credit card and identity theft crime ring. The NYPD special investigations unit managed to get these guys off the streets because, according to reports, they were putting out a whopping 3,000 fake credit cards each and every month.
“This industrious NY-based ring utilized international and domestic resources to orchestrate their crimes,” commented Raymond Kelly, the NYPD Police Commissioner.
Some of these resources included hackers from China, who were employed to hack into databases from retail stores and credit card companies throughout the United States. The account numbers they uncovered were used to make phony cards, the production of which took place in a home that the investigators referred to as the “House of Cards.”
After the phony cards were made, the crime ring recruited people to to buy merchandise at local retailers, which was shipped to Queens and eventually sold on the Internet.
In all, close to 30 people were busted on charges related to the crime ring. The people arrested are facing a total of 174 counts. One of the people arrested was the ring leader of the group, Kwok Chow, who headed the organization and was allegedly making the cards in his own basement apartment. Upon arresting Chow, investigators also arrested several other people that were in the home at the time helping him produce the phony cards.
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