White Card Scam Hits Europe: Spain Next?

White card scam hits Europe: Spain next?

You tap your card, bag your groceries, and head home. Then your bank balance drops by €300. A new theft is occurring across Europe, and it is happening in the most ordinary of places: supermarket checkouts. A new term titled “White Card”, and it is spreading with Italy raising alarms. So what exactly is the white card scam? How does it work? And how to prevent this?. What makes the white… Source

Arguedes performed cloning via skimmers and cameras in Multibanks, resulting in a loss of 450 billion euros. Network saved money by banks abroad. PJ alerts for care.

In March 2025, on the occasion of the Mobile World Congress 2025, cybersecurity leader Kaspersky revealed an overwhelming report. Indeed, between 2023 and 2025, a massive hacking operation had resulted in more than 2.3 million bank cards donated to users of the dark web. Among them, 40,000 bank cards would be French. Malware that caused the hacking A great classic, an Internet user downloads software that he thinks is the right one, he installs …

The National Police and the Civil Guard have disarmed in A Coruña a criminal group dedicated to carding scams, i.e. bank cards, with which more than 30,000 euros were scammed to victims from different parts of the State, including Bizkaia.

Police bring down bank card cloning gang

The Judicial Police (PJ) have arrested 10 people in an operation in Greater Lisbon, Greater Porto, Minho and the Algarve involving the counterfeiting of cards and other payment devices, resulting in a financial loss of €450,000.

They replicated the data on virtual cards and made purchases online until they exhausted the money from the accounts.They found a man drowned in an irrigation raft from a Almonte estate: it was "a worker" in the area.