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Credit card scam :
Sri Lankan arrested in India
Indian police claimed to have busted a major credit card racket with
the arrest of a Sri Lankan, said to be the brain behind the operation in
which credit cards were cloned using a skimmer, an embossing machine and
other equipment.
On October 15, police arrested Harikumar when he attempted to make
purchases using a fake credit card in Perambur. When questioned, he
revealed that the brain was Umesh alias Jatti, a Sri Lankan settled in
Canada who had come to Chennai.
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Credit card racket |
* Police
recover 24 fake credit cards from Umesh's house
* Shops cheated to the tune of Rs. 50 lakhs
* Around 150 fake credit cards supplied to agents |
He was staying near Porur. Police recovered four fake credit cards
from Harikumar and other details about the prime accused. The case was
then forwarded to the central crime branch for further investigation.
Special teams nabbed Umesh, a marine engineer, from a residence in
Porur on Friday. During interrogation, he revealed that he had got
several blank credit cards sent from Malaysia by agents to his address
by courier. He had also obtain the particulars of credit cards issued in
Canada from some friends in that country where he had spent many years.
Later, he got engraved and embossed the particulars on the empty credit
cards along with false names and other details. He also prepared fake
driving licences, PAN cards, passports, meant to be shown to suspicious
shop-keepers while making the purchases.
Police recovered from Umesh's house 24 fake credit cards and several
empty credit cards, apart from a laptop in which the credit card details
about persons living abroad were stored. The sophisticated equipment
used to engrave and emboss the credit card particulars on empty credit
cards was also seized.
During interrogation, investigating officers found that Umesh had
sent many agents across the state and also to neighbouring states to
make purchases using the fake credit cards. "We believe that Umesh and
his agents may have cheated shops to the tune of Rs. 50 lakhs in the
state. He also informed the investigating officers that he had supplied
at least 150 fake credit cards to many agents," a senior police officer
said.
"This is a big racket and we have managed to arrest the kingpin.
Still, special teams are on the job investigating whether more people
are involved in the operation," city police commissioner T. Rajendran
told The Times Of India. Times of India |
