Mumbai cops bust big ATM card racket

Customers going to the beer bar need to be careful. The cashiers and the waiters there are cloning the credit or debit cards of the customers and clearing the money from their bank accounts. One such case has been exposed by the Malad Police. Two waiters, including one cashier, from three beer bars of Borivali including Malad in Mumbai suburb have been arrested. From these, three cloning machine laptops and five buckled ATM cards, along with the PIN numbers of the customers’ ATM cards were recovered. Malad Police has registered a 66 (a) (e) case against the accused in addition to Section 419,420.

A person named Rakesh Vishwakarma, who lives in Malad Chincholi Bandar, lodged a complaint with the Malad Police Station that despite having an ATM card, someone had withdrawn Rs 1 lakh from his account. After inquiring from the complainant, the officer of the cyber cell of Malad Police Station, the matter was investigated, besides the petrol pump of Boribali, the beer bar where he used his ATM card. At the same time, 24-year-old Dharmendra Kumar Singh, who worked as a cashier in the Jashn bar of Borivali East, found a cloning machine installed in an ATM swap machine from him, said Dhananjay Legade Senior Police Inspector of Malad Police Station.

Further, he said that after strict questioning and more investigation, another similar cloning machine was found with him. Accused Dharmendra Singh said to Police that in this work, a waiter working in the early Sur Sangeet bar of Borivali also uses this machine. After the arrest, both of them also revealed the name of one of their partners living in Malad, from whom five blank debit cards, along with a laptop, paper slips of the PIN numbers of the customers’ ATM cards have been recovered. During the investigation, the police got information that the complainant’s Rs 1 lakh was withdrawn from Bihar’s ATM five times. Cops are collecting more information from these people.