Courier staff held for stealing credit cards

The South district police arrested two courier company employees for allegedly stealing credit cards being sent to users through courier. Police said they have been able to bust a gang of credit card thieves; the gang's mastermind was a school dropout, Birendra Kumar (26), who worked in Elbee Express courier firm. The accused used to steal the credit cards being sent to users through courier and made hefty purchases through them. The gang even bought a Maruti Alto car using a stolen card.

The technique used by gang's exposes the carelessness in security norms followed by banks in dispatching credit cards to users, many of whom don't even ask for it.

Police told Kumar used to collect bundles of envelopes containing credit cards from ICICI Bank in Noida for delivery to the courier office. The gang would take out credit cards from certain envelopes, like those addressed to business executives. These cards would be then replaced with thick paper cards, police said. The gang used to create fake identity proofs matching the names in the credit card and did the high-value purchasing with the cards.