Mangalore, February 25: Sleuths of city crime branch (CCB) of Mangalore City Police on Saturday busted a two-member inter-state gang of cheats who had perfected the art of cloning credit cards.
The arrested are Zishan Mohammad (24), son of Ihsanullah from Richards Town, Bangalore, and Gujarat based Kelwin Patel (26), who was residing at Kudroli, Mangalore.
Mangalore City Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh told media persons at his office that the duo have had transactions with American Express bank, Standard Chartered bank, Citibank through six credit cards and they were also using methods of making fake credit cards and confiscating account numbers of different people.
They used to transfer funds into the credit cards using special software and possessed writers and readers to operate their business, he said.
The police have also recovered from them a laptop which had the software to transfer account numbers into the fake credit cards. A magnetic swipe card, IC card, readers and writers were also recovered. The accused also possessed receipts of purchases of up to Rs 3.5 lakhs from a shop and also usage of the cards at Leela Palace Hotel in Bangalore. They used mobile phones and internet modems to operate their business, informed the commissioner.
Mr Singh said that the accused used to steal account numbers from national and international account holders and with the help of their equipment transferred funds into the credit cards. Their mobiles contained several details of account numbers and SMS sent to pass on information about account numbers, he said adding that the case might involve several other persons and an investigation is on.
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