For public release TLP:Green:
The documentary program, OperationX aired on Danish TV2 last night, have the past two months been investigating and tracking a large reshipping scam orchestrated from Vilnius in Lithuania.
The criminal setup have involved abuse of a large volume of stolen credit cards, which then was used to buy expensive electronic goods and bikes from ecommerce stores both in Denmark and Germany and probably elsewhere in Europe.
With the use of packet mules, working out of Denmark, the goods was then shipped to Lithuania and sold using various Internet forums.
The CSIS eCrime Unit was called in to support the investigation and we managed through several digital channels to track the person running the criminal outfit. How we exactly managed to do this will not be made publicly available. As a result of this work, the Lithuanian police arrested Aleksandrs Mirakovskis and subsequently have pleaded guilty to several charges.
Apparently, the apartment of Aleksandrs Mirakovskis, which was raided by the local police, also contained facilities to produce large amounts of fake credit cards.
In Denmark alone, one single ecommerce store, have lost millions of kroner due to this scam and have reported more than 600 incidents to the national police which only have led to a single charge.
The magnitude of package reshipping and fraud using stolen credit cards to buy expensive electronic goods is difficult to estimate, but it’s clearly costing Danish eCommerce stores millions of kroner every year.