Two Busted for Gambling Online with Stolen Credit Cards
January 5th, 2009 |Thousands of credit card numbers were involved and the vast majority was issued by two U.S. banks -- Chase Manhattan and Citibank.
The couple, arrested at their house in the eastern Sicilian city of Catania, won about $400,000 from the betting, Capt. Giancarlo Sulsenti of the paramilitary tax police told the Associated Press in a telephone interview from Catania.
The pair, who allegedly hacked into computers to obtain the Visa and Mastercard numbers, also went on an online buying spree, ordering clothing, watches and books, police said.
Giuseppe Russo, 34, an electronics system expert, and Croatian-born Sandra Elazar, 33, a linguist and interpreter, were charged with illegal use of credit cards. In most cases, the couple would run about $2,500 worth of charges on each card, authorities said.
Investigators in Italy were tipped off by a banking service that became suspicious about bets placed with an online lottery agent in Bergamo in northern Italy.
Without worrying about the expense and playing all possible combinations so
as to secure the win, the couple was able to win $400,000, a tax police
statement said. The winnings were then laundered through various bank
accounts, including some abroad.
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