Some cyber-bad apples living in the U.K. were recently busted for some sneaky criminal behaviour. They came up with an inventive plan to scam over $300,000 USD from Amazon and iTunes.

The group of music and crime fans' plan was to make a bunch of songs, put them up on Amazon and iTunes, and then buy the tunes themselves -- with, stolen credit cards of course. Purchasing their own music many thousands of times generate the law-breaking group $300,000 USD in royalty payments.

Almost as humourous as this round-about way of making illegal gains, the six men and three women behind the operation were arrested by a massive police force composed of a whopping 60 English police officers.

Although arrested in the U.K, it was the F.B.I that first researched the scam, and brought these music-loving crooks to justice.

The gang put up 19 album tracks for sale; one of the crime group was apparently amatuer D.J. There has been no word on what name the scammers' music was being sold under.