Fabian Perez Flamenco DancerII painting

Fabian Perez Flamenco DancerII painting
Edward Hopper Ground Swell painting
resulted in losses of $7 million. 'It Is a Global Problem'According to Tim Parsons of the City of London Police, organized crime gangs from the Continent and Eastern Europe, Asia, Russia and Africa, are targeting central London because of the thousands of people who visit daily. “Tourists areas are especially being hit because they tend to be easy targets,” added Parson. “People normally always have credit cards on them.” But while card details are often stolen in Britain, experts say the cloned cards are used all over Europe, the Middle East, Asia and America.“The rapid growth in counterfeit fraud is not a U.K.-based problem, it is a global problem,” says Brian Moore of Europay, the European arm of MasterCard International. “Coupled with the fact that fraud is no longer an opportunist crime but an organized crime, people need to be very aware of where their card is at all times.”