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Article: Credit card fraud an easy source of funding for terrorists
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- November 4, 2001
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As the U.S. government moves to choke the financial network of
terrorists and their supporters, law-enforcement authorities are
focusing on a growing and seemingly easy source of money for
terrorists: credit card fraud.
Suspected terrorist cells operating in the United States, Canada
and Europe have employed a variety of scams to steal millions of
dollars from credit card companies - using the proceeds to support
themselves and their activities, and funneling money to Middle East
terrorist groups, according to congressional testimony, court
records and FBI interviews with a known terrorist.
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon, investigators in ...