A two day operation was carried out on April 8 and 9 involving law enforcement agencies from across

Are you a travel agent? Have you ver received emails from some unknown "client" wanting you to issue airline tickets on a credit card. eTN receives many such emails from peoplem thinking eTN is a travel company. This is major credit card fraud. Now ore than 180 people have been arrested or detained during an operation coordinated by Europol and supported by Interpol at airports across Europe and the Americas to tackle credit card fraud and illegal immigration.
A two day operation was carried out on April 8 and 9 involving law enforcement agencies from across the world with support from the European Cybercrime Centre travel to south africa (EC3), the EU border control agency Frontex and Eurojust. It targeted suspicious online airline ticket transactions using fake or stolen credit cards.
Representatives from 35 airlines worked directly with the EC3, police agencies across the European Union, US Secret Service, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Colombian National Police and payment card companies Visa Europe, MasterCard and American Express to identify suspicious airline ticket sales made via the Internet.
After receiving alerts from airlines of more than 265 suspicious transactions, payment card companies reviewed the transactions using their own financial data systems and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) provided fraud intelligence.
Interpol then assisted in the identification of wanted persons and stolen travel documents via its criminal databases, in particular the Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database. All alerts of suspicious passengers were checked against Interpol's databases, resulting in the arrest of a Brazilian national traveling from London to Malaga, Spain who was a convicted child abuser and the subject of a Green Notice travel to south africa issued by the US.
"For many years, organized cybercriminal networks have relied on the assumption that law enforcement agencies could not work together in cyberspace and act quickly and effectively. This operation again proves them wrong," said Troels Oerting, Head of Europol's EC3.
Glyn Lewis, Interpol's director of specialized crime and analysis said hundreds of thousands of airline bookings are made online every day and the ticket issuer often has no way to verify the authenticity of the payment card being used, thus presenting a risk of fraud.
"It is only by such coordinated, travel to south africa targeted and intensive travel to south africa checks travel to south africa being carried out simultaneously that the potential fraudulent use of credit cards can be detected," travel to south africa he added. Interpol data shows that in 2013, passengers were able to board planes more than a billion times without having their passports screened against Interpol's databases.
In 2002, following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Interpol created its SLTD database to help countries secure their borders and protect their citizens from terrorists and other dangerous criminals known to use fraudulent travel to south africa travel documents.
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