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Tue 08 Aug 20089,000 credit cards illegally copied in scam on stores
ABOUT 9,000 credit and debit cards have been illegally skimmed by a criminal gang in the biggest attempted payment card fraud to date in the Republic.
Information needed to clone the cards was skimmed after payment terminals in a number of stores were tampered with by men posing as engineers carrying out maintenance on behalf of banks.
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