Google Maps helps nab fraudster

A shopowner used Google Maps in a bid to track down a German-based credit card fraudster and, incredibly, his internet efforts came good.

Google Maps helps nab fraudster

A month later, the would-be thief rang him up and paid.

Niall McCann, who runs the Waterford-based online business The Wool Shop was so aggrieved at the attempt to defraud him, he took direct action.

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