Beware: ATM frauds arrested for cloning people’s debit cards in Delhi

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New Delhi: Delhi police have arrested two men for allegedly cheating people mainly women and senior citizens by cloning their ATM cards.

According to police, many complaints were received in outer Delhi areas prompting it to act. A police team later zeroed in on two suspects and the duo were arrested.

They were identified as Johny and Rohit, both residents of Haryana. Both are in their early twenties. The police said that both the accused learnt the art of cloning through YouTube.

“During further sustained interrogation, it was revealed that they used to visit ATM booths without guards to help women and senior citizens in withdrawing cash from ATM. During help, they copied or swapped their ATM cards in the Skimmer device. Both the accused took help of YouTube to learn the entire process,” said DCP Outer Delhi, Dr A. Koan.

ATM Cloning Device (Skimmer Device), 2 ATM cards, 2 knives and 1 mobile phone have been recovered from the accused.

 

IANS

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