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Jul 14, 2008 10:09 pm US/Pacific

Eight Women Arrested For Major Credit Card Fraud

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ― A major credit card ring has been busted in Northern California, authorities said.

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department has formally announced Tuesday the arrest of eight Bay Area women who are believed to be a part of an international fraud scheme.

The women are accused of using the private account information of more than 400 victims from the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia. Investigators say the women spent more than a million dollars at retail stores along the I-80 corridor between Sacramento and San Francisco.

These women have been dubbed the Richmond girls and three have been identified and have pleaded guilty to the charges against them.

Investigators said the women would take gift cards that they would buy at the store and then wire money obtained from fraudulent credit card numbers. They would then take them and put them on the gift cards they bought locally. Essentially, all they needed was a magnetic strip and a fraudulent number.

Their favorite places were said to be  Wal- Mart, Target, Macy's and Nordstrom's for high end items. They were focusing on high end purses and laptop computers and gift cards they would purchase from $500 to $1,000 or $2,000 a gift card.

Authorities first arrested one of the women back in December at a local Target on Broadway. Once they made that arrest, they realized there was a bigger case here and it took them months to figure out there was money being wired and credit cards coming back stolen.

The women are currently being held in the Sacramento County Jail.

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