Police suspect inter-State dimensions to ATM fraud

Puducherry | Saturday | 21st April, 2018

Summary:

The modus operandi followed by the accused was to fix tiny skimmer machines, imported from China, to capture ATM data of customers. Investigators suspect that the case had inter-State ramifications as the sophisticated equipment used to gather the ATM data of customers of nationalised banks was procured by the accused using their network of associates. more-inThe Crime and Intelligence (C&I) wing of the territorial police has widened the net to nab more accused in the ATM fraud case detected here two days ago. The accused used BJM Enterprises, their own company, as a cover to procure Point of Sale (PoS) devices from banks. After fixing the skimmer and camera, the accused would wait near the ATM and after a few hours they would remove it..