Rs 3L stolen with cloned ATM card – Times of India

AHMEDABAD: Nine years after Satellite police arrested a gang involved in cloning of ATM cards from a hotel on Ashram Road, an incident of ATM card cloning came to light on Friday. Sandeep Laxman, 28 lodged a complaint that Rs 3 lakh was withdrawn from his savings account from two different ATMs in the city located near Subash Bridge and Sarkhej, even though his ATM card was with him at the time of the transactions.

ACP Rajdeepsinh Zala said the possibility is high that a duplicate ATM card was used to withdraw money from Laxman's account. "These scamsters use a special machine to read the magnetic chip on ATM cards. These machines are often used at some outlets to copy card data and to make a duplicate ATM card," added Zala said.

Crime branch sources said that according to the complaint, Sandeep, who has his savings account in ICICI bank in Chennai on received about nine withdrawal messages from the bank on April 15.

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