Police arrests 4 men for ATM card cloning

The Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar (MBVV) police have arrested four men for allegedly making cloned ATM cards and withdrawing money using them.

Recently, the Manikpur police arrested Saurabh Yadav, a resident of Virar (east). He informed the police about his three aides from Bihar — Dhanraj Paswan, Pawankumar Paswan and Rakesh Choudhari, who were subsequently arrested.

During interrogation, the accused revealed that the gang members were allegedly assisted by employees at several restaurants and bars. The work of the waiters was to skim the credit or debit cards of customers on a skimming device when they and those over for making a payment.

After stealing the data using a skimming device, the waiters would observe the customer while they enter their four-digit PIN on the payment device and then pass on the information to the fraudsters.

Police recovered three laptops, four ATM card cloners, eight ATM card skimming devices, five mobile phones and 103 cloned ATM cards of various banks from the accused’s possession. The police have booked all the four accused under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and IT Act sections for cheating and forgery.