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Cardsharing: Police Raids in the UK and Greece
Compiled from various sources -
Last week the Greek Police went through a series of clone Dreambox card sharing server raids throughout Greece
(in seven cities).
Eight Greek nationals and two foreign nationals were arrested for satellite piracy by police in the cities of Athens, Salonika, Heraklion Crete, Rhodes, Drama, Korinthos and Syros Island.
It was found that these individuals were sharing cards to 1558 clients illegally. During the raids the following were confiscated:
6 laptops with illegal software
48 dreamboxes
14 card readers
45 gammacards
2 memory sticks
28 hard disks
2 ethernet switches
27 PCs
Raids will continue next week as well.
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New police raid linked to Greece was done in UK last week, individuals arrested for Cardsharing.
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11.02.2010
S*****dsharing.com (As of this posting the site is down - AZA)
Four people were arrested by facts for copyrights theft against NDS, information from Police:
Lisa Scott,
Paul Pulsford,
Paul Moody,
Steven Kay.
Cardsharing server found at three addresses in Camberly near Southampton and Romford.
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On Wednesday 10/02/2010 officers from Hampshire Police and the Metropolitan Police acting on intelligence supplied by FACT executed four simultaneous search warrants at addresses in Middlesex and Hampshire as part of an investigation into a satellite card sharing website. Four men were arrested and large quantities of computers, satellite cards and card readers were seized along with financial documentation and other correspondence. Police were supported by Investigators from FACT.
All four men were interviewed and bailed to return pending forensic examination of the seized evidence.
On Thursday 11/02/2010 officers from Wiltshire Police investigating an eBay seller executed a search warrant at an address in Highworth, Wiltshire. A 35 year old male was arrested and a large quantity of satellite equipment was seized along with a computer and other paraphernalia. Police were supported by Investigators from FACT.
The man was interviewed and bailed to return to Swindon Police Station.
12.02.2010
Owner of SatGalaxy has been arrested.
The above information was given to us by a source in NDS.
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