04-03-2008, 10:21 AM
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pioneer.com
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested five persons including a former call centre owner and a commerce graduate for using credit cards details of British citizens and committing a fraud worth Rs 30 lakh.
According to the police, an accomplice of the accused who is absconding skimmed <b>the magnetic information from the credit cards of customers when he went to United Kingdom and provided that information to his other gang members in Delhi. The gang would then transfer the information on to a plain credit card and either withdraw money or shop with it.</b>
The mastermind behind the crime, identified as, Vivek Kumar (27) hails from Bangalore and is a B.Com graduate. Kumar learnt the skill to clone credit cards while working as a business development executive for a computer firm in Hyderabad. The other accused are identified as <b>Nafees Ahmed (37), Raju Khan (27), Brijesh Yadav (27) and Dildar Hussain (32) </b>used the credit cards details provided by Kumar. Nafees owned a call centre and he was simultaneously working for HDFC Bank.
Raju worked at a petrol pump in Nazafgarh and Dildar Hussain worked at a tailoring unit in South Extension. Brijesh used to work as a driver for Nafees. "We have recovered 21 cloned credit cards from their possession. They used a fake credit card for only one transaction. They created a network of shopkeepers to swipe the cards. We have arrested two of them - Raju and Dildar, and detained the shopkeeper for interrogation," said the officer.
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pioneer.com
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested five persons including a former call centre owner and a commerce graduate for using credit cards details of British citizens and committing a fraud worth Rs 30 lakh.
According to the police, an accomplice of the accused who is absconding skimmed <b>the magnetic information from the credit cards of customers when he went to United Kingdom and provided that information to his other gang members in Delhi. The gang would then transfer the information on to a plain credit card and either withdraw money or shop with it.</b>
The mastermind behind the crime, identified as, Vivek Kumar (27) hails from Bangalore and is a B.Com graduate. Kumar learnt the skill to clone credit cards while working as a business development executive for a computer firm in Hyderabad. The other accused are identified as <b>Nafees Ahmed (37), Raju Khan (27), Brijesh Yadav (27) and Dildar Hussain (32) </b>used the credit cards details provided by Kumar. Nafees owned a call centre and he was simultaneously working for HDFC Bank.
Raju worked at a petrol pump in Nazafgarh and Dildar Hussain worked at a tailoring unit in South Extension. Brijesh used to work as a driver for Nafees. "We have recovered 21 cloned credit cards from their possession. They used a fake credit card for only one transaction. They created a network of shopkeepers to swipe the cards. We have arrested two of them - Raju and Dildar, and detained the shopkeeper for interrogation," said the officer.
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