credit card fraud...in bangladesh,date 2june2013

Several gangs involved in credit card fraud in Dhaka and Chittagong
have cheated many cardholders out of their money, using hidden cameras
and other devices. They set up cameras above ATM machines to record
the clients typing in their passwords and a Near Field Communication
(NFC) device on the booths' doors to copy the cardholders' information
as they swiped their cards. They then put the information into new
cards with magnetic blank strips, using devices that can read and
write cards. The Detective Branch of police on Saturday busted two
such fraudsters belonging to two gangs in the capital. Of the two,
Mosharraf Hossain, who studied information technology in England, was
arrested in Mirpur area, and Mohana Thas, a Sri Lankan-born British
national and IT specialist, was arrested near Shahjalal International
Airport. The arrestees told police that they used to enter ATM booths
of different banks with fake ID cards introducing themselves as IT
experts and maintenance engineers of the banks. In the name of
security upgrade, they told the clients to swipe their cards in the
NFC (a wireless connectivity technology) devices, mounted on the
doors. When the cardholders did so, the fraudsters got their hands on
all the information they needed. Using duplicate cards, they withdrew
money from ATM booths or purchased products from different shopping
malls and later sold them at a discount, said DB Joint Commissioner
Monirul Islam at a press briefing at the media centre of the Dhaka
Metropolitan Police. Mosharraf learnt the trick from Bulgarian
national Rosen Ili when he was in Denmark. Mohana came to Bangladesh
in March and he is an accused in a credit card fraud case filed with
Panchlaish Police Station in Chittagong city on Friday. In a six-hour
drive that started at 3:00pm on Saturday, the law enforcers seized a
card reader and writer, an NFC device, a high-powered camera, a
laptop, nine blank cards, a few duplicate credit cards, foreign
currencies, fake ID cards of a private bank and some forged documents.