Summary:
The debit card data reader was embedded in the device and when an account holder swiped his card into the slot, the data got copied from it. He targeted the ATMs where no security guards were present.The device recovered was a sophisticated instrument that got fixed into the debit card slot of the ATM accurately. The scamsters used the stolen data to develop cloned debit cards to steal money from bank accounts of customers.Police arrested a resident of Sarthana Sagar Dhameliya on Monday night. Surat: Police arrested a 19-year-old youth from an area under the limits of Kapodara police station on Monday for his alleged involvement in a racket to copy data of debit cards of bank customers and provide them to scamsters in Mumbai. Police found a device in his scooter, which he told them was meant to be installed in an automatic teller machine..