November 4th 2025, Europol released information about a criminal network targeting bank cards. And announced the issuance of arrest warrants of 18 arrest warrants executed.
Europol stated that: “The criminal networks are suspected of misusing credit card data from over 4.3 million cardholders across 193 countries. In total, the estimated damage from the fraud scheme exceeds EUR 300 million, with attempted damages amounting to over EUR 750 million“.
Europol has pointed to executives and intermediaries in German payment services, as well as service providers using shell companies.
Europol has pointed that: Between 2016 and 2021 to the suspects create around 19 million fake online subscriptions on professionally operated websites. They primarily offering pornography, dating, and streaming services.
They charges on credit cards were kept low, around EUR 50 per month, with obscure descriptions, making it difficult for cardholders to identify unauthorized transactions
Europol has pointed to Payment service providers
“The suspects allegedly exploited the infrastructure of four major German payment service providers to process and launder the illicit transactions. Six suspects, including executives and compliance officers, are accused of colluding with the fraud networks, enabling them to access the payment infrastructure in exchange for fees”.
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