Chip credit cards: What you need to know as a consumer
Answers to common questions on what will change (and not change) for consumers Il Posto restaurant waiter Kelly Walso, right, uses a VeriFone VX680 credit card reader for customers Matthew Henderson,...
View ArticleChesterfield police arrest two Estonia natives with ATM skimming device,...
Chesterfield County police have arrested two natives of Estonia after they left a Bank of America branch and were found in possession of an ATM "skimming" device and multiple credit and debit cards....
View ArticleSkimmer scam catches attention of ODA inspectors (ODA - Oregon Department of...
(Source: ODA - Oregon Department of Agriculture) Add one more item for weights and measures inspectors with the Oregon Department of Agriculture to look for while examining motor fuel dispensers around...
View ArticleMan swipes cloned credit card, arrested
Pimpri Chinchwad: A 26-year-old man and his friend selected a smartphone and a car charger from a cellphone shop in Pimpri on Friday afternoon and paid Rs 72,680 using three credit cards of one Arvind...
View ArticleFive held for cloning debit, credit cards
A gang of five that stole credit and debit card data and producing cloned cards to swindle money from accounts of card-holders in foreign countries has been arrested by Upparpete police. The police not...
View ArticleCredit card racketeers get creative with fraud
More than six gangs involved in credit/debit card frauds have been busted by police teams over the past four years. Interestingly, each gang used unique techniques to con bank customers foxing not just...
View ArticleSix Malaysians nabbed for allegedly hacking into ATMs in Indonesia
JAKARTA: Indonesian police have detained six Malaysians for allegedly hacking into the accounts of 112 bank customers through automated teller machines (ATMs) and stealing Rupiah 1.24 billion...
View Article07-23-2015 PCSO Detectives Arrest Three in Davenport for Trafficking in...
(Source: Polk County Sheriff) PCSO Detectives Arrest Three in Davenport for Trafficking in Counterfeit Credit Cards, Cultivation of Marijuana, Other Charges On Tuesday, July 22, 2015, PCSO deputies...
View Article3 Romanians arrested in skimming racket
MUMBAI: A major international skimming racket involving three Romanian Nationals was busted by the Vinobha Bhave Nagar police of Kurla last week. With the arrest of the three accused police claim to...
View ArticleCops seek curbs on sale of card stripe read-write devices
The Mumbai Police Crime Branch will be writing to the central government seeking curbs on the sale of Magnetic Stripe Card Reader Writer devices, capable of reading and cloning data of magnetic strips...
View ArticleTeacher skimmed by card thieves A STAFF REPORTER A Calcutta teacher was...
A Calcutta teacher was skimmed of Rs 40,000 by a gang of cheats using a small device and stealing the PIN when he swiped his debit card at a Mumbai ice cream parlour. The incident occurred last...
View ArticleAlert eyes can miss updated skimmers inside ATM kiosks
PUNE: Suspected skimming cases, which involve reading the data off the card's magnetic strip, are on a rise in the city, more so in the last two months, officials of the Pune cyber crime cell have...
View ArticleHunt on by Andhra CID sleuths to nab kingpin of card cloning gang
HYDERABAD: CID sleuths of Andhra Pradesh have launched a manhunt for a Nigerian, said to be a key member of the debit and credit card cloning gangs operating in the country . During a recent raid in...
View ArticleThree arrested for cloning cards at petrol pumps
NEW DELHI: Next time you swipe your credit or debit card at a petrol pump, better watch out. Hackers are either taking up jobs in petrol pumps across the city or roping in attendants to clone cards by...
View ArticleCyber cops swipe at credit card scam
LUCKNOW: Are you taking due precautions while making payment through debit/credit card? Next time, take care. On Thursday, Hazratganj-based cyber cell arrested three employees of a Gomtinagar...
View ArticlePolice Bust ATM Skimming Racket
By Farouk Arnaz on 9:54 am March 4, 2014. Category Crime, News Tags: ATM Theft, Indonesia crime Jakarta. Indonesian police have busted a Malaysian gang allegedly behind the theft of more than Rp 1.2...
View ArticleDebit cards cloned at ATMs
Hyderabad: The cloning of debit cards is increasing alarmingly in the city with crooks finding new ways to copy data from the cards. The most common way to steal card data is to use extra swiping...
View ArticleFlorida is fertile territory for crooks making counterfeit credit cards
WASHINGTON— The hottest scam in Florida, growing across the state and spreading nationwide, is the mass production of counterfeit credit cards embedded with account numbers of unwitting consumers....
View ArticleThree arrested for credit card fraud
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police claims to have busted a gang of crooks with the arrest of three men. The trio allegedly procured bank data of unknown foreigners through hackers, made duplicate credit cards...
View ArticlePolice arrest two credit card counterfeiters
Police have arrested two credit card counterfeiters who used sophisticated scam techniques, the National Police’s special economic crimes director, Brig. Gen. Agung Setya, said on Friday. The two...
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