Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Credit card fraudsters arrested in New Delhi

In New Delhi a crime branch team arrested three persons who had cheated banks by obtaining credit cards using fake documents. Police told the three accused were Mohammad Naushad of Haulambi Kalan, Mohammad Nadeem and Junaid of DDA Flats had duped banks of around Rs 30 lakh using the credit cards issued to them.

Neeraj Thakur, DCP (crime and railways) said, "Posing as traders, they also managed to procured an EDC machine used to swipe cards during shopping and used it to make purchases.''

On receiving the complaint of fraudulent use of credit cards, a team led by ACP Sanjay Tyagi caught Naushad in Inderlok area on January 20. On interrogation he revealed that he had procured the credit card using a fake PAN card. Cops told Naushad owns a pan shop in the Inderlok while Nadeem has a garments shop.

Thakur informed, "The three opened a shop in partnership and got an EDC machine from a private Bank. They applied for and got a number of credit cards from different banks on the basis of fake identities. We recovered two PAN cards, seven credit cards, six debit cards and 12 cheque books of different banks from the accused.''

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