Fifteen persons have been arrested for indulging in credit card fraud by obtaining card details of customers from some petrol bunks in the city. […] Speaking to mediapersons here on Friday, Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran said one gang, headed by Manoj Kumar of Pallikaranai, had been operating in Chennai and other parts of the…
Author: Dissent
In: Man held for duping people at ATMs
Sindhi Camp police have arrested the supervisor of a security company — which provides guards to the banks on charges of duping many people by tampering ATMs. The accused duped several people who used ATMs. He used to either ask for help or “assist” ATM users and would manage to get their PIN in the…
Bulgarians caught installing skimmer in Turkey
Here’s yet another case involving Bulgarians: Novinite reports: Turkish media also report on the arrest of two Bulgarian nationals, suspected in ATM fraud. The Istanbul police has identified the two as Petko Stefanov, 36, and Vladimir Dimitrov, 33. They made the arrest after receiving a tip from employees servicing an ATM in the Fatih district,…
Bulgarian brothers charged with installing skimmers at Chase and Citibank
Bruce Golding reports: Two brothers have been charged with scamming more than $1 million by installing electronic skimmers and hidden cameras on Chase and Citibank ATMs. Radostin and Ulian Paralingov, from Bulgaria, used information gleaned from the devices to create duplicate bank cards and crack PIN codes, according to the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office. Another…
(update) St. Charles said 30 reports of debit card fraud came from Aldi
The breach previously mentioned on this blog involving some ALDI stores has reportedly affected “hundreds” of individuals. Hal Conick of the St. Charles Republican reports that 30 residents of St. Charles were among those affected.
Playing catch-up in Australia
Outdated banking technology has made Australia a prime target for international ATM skimming gangs, according to police. Tens of millions of dollars are lost in Australia each year as a result of card skimming. The problem is that Australia is still using magnetic strips, rather than the ‘chip and PIN’ technology in other countries, and…