Automated teller machine

Police on Crete are investigating a blast that caused significant damage to a real estate agency in the village of Almyrida, in Hania.

Authorities were dispatched to the village at around 5 a.m. on Saturday after a homemade explosive device went off outside the business, causing extensive damage to the building’s interior and exterior.

Bulgaria and Spain, in cooperation with Europol, have dismantled a significant Bulgarian organised payment crime network.

The crime ring is suspected of a variety of crimes including large scale ATM skimming, electronic payment fraud and forgery of documents, Europol said in a statement.

A French court has sentenced two Bulgarian citizens to 2 years of imprisonment over having sought to install skimming devices in the city of Reims.

They were arrested during an inspection by the customs agency on Wednesday afternoon, local daily L'union l'Ardennais has reported.

A homemade explosive device detonated at the ATM of a bank branch in the Sykies district of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, in the early hours of Wednesday.

The explosion damaged the cash machine and the building’s facade but no injuries were reported.

Two Bulgarian nationals have been arrested in Peru for credit card cloning and skimming.

29-year-old Ivan Rangelov and 32-year-old Svetoslav Sariev were detained in a suburb of the Peruvian capital. During the police raid on their home, a total of 15 credit cards and other devices were found, BGNES reports.

Two Bulgarian nationals have been sentenced to six years of imprisonment for installing a skimming device at an ATM in a shopping center in province of Pampanga in the Philippines.

An ATM mysteriously appeared on a street in the Lagera district of Sofia, reports Dnes.bg. 

According to the police, on Thursday morning a vigilant citizen phoned the 112 emergency line and said there was an ATM standing at the Balkandzhi Yovo street. 

It is yet unclear whether the ATM was stolen from a bank and how it appeared in the street.

An attempted smuggling of skimming devices has been prevented at Bulgaria's border checkpoint Vidin - Danube Bridge, the press center of the Interior Ministry said.

The electronic devices have been seized from a Bulgarian registered car in a joint operation conducted on July 10 by the Border Police Directorate, State Agency National Security (DANS) and the Customs office in Vidin.

A powerful blast shook a Thrakomakedones neighborhood in northern Attica after unknown assailants attempted to blow up an ATM machine in the early hours of Wednesday.

No injuries were reported in the blast which, according to initial reports, was caused by an oxygen cylinder explosion.

Reports also suggested that the perpetrators were unable to reach the ATM's cash.

Bulgarians use their debit cards mostly to withdraw their salaries from the ATMs, shows a survey of the My Money internet portal. 

It took place among 1500 visitors of the site in April.