AT & T scam targeted customers $ 2,000,000 was used to fund terrorist groups linked to Mumbai attacks, says the FBI

the Philippines working with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested four people on a telephone scam that customers primary goal of the U.S. telecommunications giant AT & T to spend money to a militant Saudi group.

The four arrested last Wednesday in Manila have been paid by the same group that the FBI accused of financing in November 2008 Mumbai attacks, research from the Philippines and Criminal Detection Group (CIDG), at he said.

piracy activity as a result of AT & T commit nearly $ 2 million (£ 1.3) in the loss, the CIDG said.

police said the money was diverted to accounts of scams a Saudi who was not identified. India accuses Pakistan Lashkar-e-Taiba for carrying out attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people.

Jenny Shearer spokesman for the FBI hackers targeting customers of AT & T, not the company itself.

Although FBI officials declined to provide details of how the group took the money, a person familiar with the situation said the pirates entered the phone system of some Customers of AT & T and made quality international calling service rate which payments would be diverted.

Sosa said the Filipinos were paid by a group originally led by Muhammad Zamir, a Pakistani arrested in Italy in 2007. Zamir said that was a member of the Jemaah Islamiya, a network of South-East Asian militants linked to al Qaeda.
"Zamir group later labeled by the FBI to be the source of funding for terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India on November 26, 2008, is also the same group that paid the pirates Kwan Group in Manila, "Sosa said in a statement.