Cyber fraud: Debit card in Chowk, cloned in Chennai

Lucknow | Monday | 25th March, 2019

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"I found from the bank that a laptop was purchased from my debit card in Salem," he said. Police said there seems to be a possibility that a new gang has become active and has taken shelter in southern cities. The Lucknow cyber cell officials said that till last year, the maximum number of card cloning was done by muggers sitting in Bihar, Jharkhand and Delhi. Fraudsters cloning debit cards are now conducting their transactions in other states to prevent detection. "We are collecting details of the locations where fraudulent transactions have been carried out in southern cities," said Abhay Mishra, nodal-incharge, cyber cell, Lucknow..