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Cyber wing nabs two for 1-lakh credit card fraud

Date of Publishing:10/9/2010

Location:Chennai

ONE OF THE ARRESTED IS BCA STUDENT

Chennai: The cyber crime wing of the city police has arrested two men, one of them a student, for cheating a person of Rs 1 lakh by using his credit card.

A team on Wednesday nabbed Syed Munavar (28), a BCA, and Mujayid (19), pursuing BCA in a private college in the city. Police recovered two laptops, 41 fake credit cards, four mobile phones, 37 SIM cards and two data cards from them. They were nabbed by a team led by cyber crime wing assistant commissioner of police D Thangaraj.

When questioned, they admitted to committing the crime, police sources said. The two men were in connivance with the employees of a few shops in the city.

They had collected the credit card number, CVV number and date of expiry with the help of a shop employee. The duo had booked domestic and international flight tickets using the portal, Easygo Travels.

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