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| CB busts credit card racket | | African national among four arrested | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Mar 23- Crime Branch has arrested the main accused a Namibian national involved in large scale credit card fraud and recovered a number of fake credit cards, charge slips worth lakhs of rupees and other items.
On the basis of reliable information received in the Crime Branch that some large scale credit card fraud in the shape of skimming, plastic card misuse, card alternation is being done by some fraudsters in Jammu in connivance with some local cheats and some foreign Nationals a case FIR No. 7/2009 dated March 17, 2009 was registered in P/S Crime Branch Jammu U/S 420/120-B/RPC. During the course of investigation different teams were constituted under the charge of officers of the Crime Branch and raids were conducted on number of swiping machine holders, where transactions had been made by the fraudsters. During their sustained questioning of the suspects it came to light that an African National, who is the kingpin of the scam had already operated in Jammu in the month of October 2008 and had carried out fraud swiping to the tune of Rs. 3 to 4 lakhs. Accordingly traps were laid around the likely suspected places.
The CB last night succeeded in arresting the main accused, a Namibian National namely Hardy Temmy Wesley Adisa son of Sunday Adisa Wesley resident of OYO- State Namibia, along with girl from Darjeeling who were caught red handed while swiping fake card in a business establishment in Jammu. They had already swiped cards for around Rs. 15,000 when the Crime Branch swooped upon them and arrested them with a number of fake credit cards, charge slips worth lacs of rupees, laptop used for getting the date of genuine / stolen cards from their contacts in some foreign country along with a machine used for altering and topping up fake cards. On their interrogation, a raid was conducted in a local Hotel where his associate one Sunita resident of Darjeeling was arrested. The questioning of the suspects revealed that the fraudsters adopted various methods of cheating the Banks and genuine card holders. While plastic fraud is perpetrated by using the blank piece of plastic on which the credit card information which has been downloaded from host terminal or obtained through their contacts is imprinted on the plastic cards.
In the altered card fraudsters use genuine original cards issued by an authorized or authentic issuer by making a slight modification on the face of the card/ back side of the card in the validity date, card No, Signature panel and magnetic strip. In some cases merchants in collusion with the fraudsters is also reported wherein the swiping machine holders give cash to the fraudsters instead of goods.
In this way the fraudsters are able to pocket hefty sums by cheating the banks and innocent card holders. During the interrogation the duo has admitted of making lakhs of rupees in this way.
During the course of interrogation and scrutiny of the data base in the Lap Top of the accused, number of e-mail messages/references of Foreign Nationals at Nigeria, Ukraine, Amsterdam etc were found containing. Down loaded copies of Passport, Credit Cards and Photo identities, revealed that gang has international connections with nationals of number of countries involved in the money swindling racket. The accused had initially landed in India in 2006 and went back to Nigeria in between for sometime where he came in contact with one Cambodian who introduced to them in 2006. Thereafter the accused confessed to that he indulged in swiping at Mumbai, Jammu, Delhi and some other parts of the country. The interrogation of the accused is in progress, some data is required to be obtained from the hard disk of the computers of the accused with the help of experts in Crime Branch and results thereof are expected very soon. Two associates of the accused were also arrested along with girl friend Sunita Subba daughter of Dib of Darjeeling in case FIR No. 7/2009 U/S 420,406, 120-B RPC P/S Crime Branch, Jammu. |
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