Indian Authorities have smashed a credit card cloning gang who instals magnetic devices at various ATM outlets to copy card information from unsuspecting customers. The gang members, Eremhen Smart (33), Kenny (32), Oloadeji Olayemi (34) all three Nigerian nationals, Martin Nsamba (25), Jolly (23) and Tinah (23), from Uganda, and Vikram Rao Nikkam (40), from Bengaluru and Hillary Kiegen, a Kenyan national as their leader.
The suspects had inserted the forged reading onto the card slot of an ATM in Kammanahalli and many other outlets storing the data of credit and debits cards including Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) which would then be remove by the reader of the gang later. Those information would then be used to clone another card which they used to make cash withdrawals from ATM.
The Banaswadi police received about 10 complaints of misuse of funds using fake cards. Through various intelligence, the police picked up Smart on January 17 in Bengaluru and during interrogation, he disclosed the gang’s operation and revealed the involvement of five of his associates from Africa. He also led the police to Nikkam’s office where police recovered Rs 2.64 lakh from him and froze Rs 2.40 lakh in his account. Jolly was picked up from a KFC in Calangute beach, Mapusa, in Goa. Jolly claimed that she had destroyed the machine and had dumped it in lake in Dharivad.
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