We've suffered a spate of 'skimmed' CC fraud @ work recently. The police are not interested - there's too much of this type of crime going on and they don't have the resources to deal with it. The CC companies aren't too bothered either since with 'cardholder not present' transactions ALL liability lies with the merchant so they are ok too. We approached the banks asking for a system whereby we are assured of payment, guess what, one doesn't exist!
The upshot of all this is while the criminals may be dumb there's not much chance of them getting nabbed here in the UK