Two Moldovans involved in stealing money from US online shoppers
Two young men from Moldova, 24 and 21, are suspected of being involved in a fraud in which significant sums of money were stolen from the customers of several online shopping sites based in Dallas, the United States.
The Moldovan Center for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption reported that a network of hackers broke into the Dallas-based sites and the stolen money was transferred to the bank cards of the two Moldovans.
The two suspects were caught red-handed as they were withdrawing $2,000 from an ATM in Chisinau.
The Moldovan bank who owned the cards was forced to pay back over $15,000 to the American sites.
The suspects were charged with involvement in information fraud and face 4 to 9 years' imprisonment. The investigation is to identify other persons involved in the network.
