A network of scammers who cloned payment cards in road transport, dismantled

Their targets? Mainly truck drivers, mainly private transport companies. A network of criminals who stole “hundreds of thousands of euros” by cloning payment cards after obtaining the victims' banking information was dismantled by the Toulouse research section, the gendarmerie said on Wednesday.

Throughout France

The three suspects, who were arrested in Aude and Meurthe-et-Moselle, were indicted for organized gang fraud and placed in pre-trial detention. These three “nationals from Eastern countries” managed to “copy users’ banking information from electronic devices installed on heavy goods vehicle service stations in the Occitanie, Grand-Est, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Provence-Alpes-Côte regions.” d’Azur,” she specifies in a press release.

This data was “then copied onto blank bank cards, then used to refuel foreign trucks traveling in France but also abroad”.