EXTRACT: In 2006, Shell suspended chip-and-pin payments at 600 petrol stations after £1 million vanished from accounts of customers whose card details are thought to have been copied.
By Patrick Sawer
Last Updated: 2:40am GMT 16/03/2008
A gang that used advanced technology to steal the credit card details of commuters buying tickets at railway station machines has been stopped.
The Romanian gang used a miniature camera and a magnetic strip reader to record pin numbers and card details, which were destined to be used to create fake cards.
The fraud may have netted hundreds of thousands of pounds. Jailing Ion Tanese, 28, and Ioan Filip, 36, at Southwark Crown Court in London, Judge Andrew Goymer said the operation represented “huge potential for loss” to unsuspecting travellers.