<HTML>"Credit Card fraud has more than doubled in the past year, according to APACS, the Association that oversees card payments. Professional gangs are believed to recruit shop staff, waiters and cashiers who regularly handle cards. They then clone the magnetic strips. APACS has warned that the fraud will keep rising until new anti fraud cards, with a special microchip, are introduced in 2003." Read the full story <a href="http://www.channel4news.co.uk/home/20010103/Story01.htm">here</a>. </HTML>
