Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Credit card crimes a plague in Malmö

Almost every fourth Swedish credit card fraud on Internet are based in Malmö. Malmö, which has only a small fraction (less than 3 %) of the population of Sweden, has received international attention because of problems related to Muslims.

There is a system that warns Internet sales businesses for possible fraudulent byuers. The system has listed the postal code areas in Sweden that are highly associated with such buyers. The five postal code areas in Sweden that are most associated with credit card crimes were all in Malmö. Examples of such are Södra Sofielund, Östra Skrävlinge och Rosengård, the latter being nation-wide publicly known as having high degree of inhabitants with a foreign background.

Source: SvD.

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On the same topic:
On average 300 persons every month living in Malmö get their credit card robbed for a total of two million Swedish Kronor (totally 350 000 dollars a month.)

Source: Kvällsposten.

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