The Cyber Crime Cell of the city police on Thursday arrested a 29-year-old person in Chitlapakkam, who allegedly siphoned off money from several accounts of a private bank by skimming details from debit/credit cards.
The CCB officials said that Mohammed Ali, 29, was arrested following a complaint lodged by Karthik, a theatre owner from Kodaikanal. According to the complainant, the suspect introduced himself as Karthik from a mobile wallet company and offered a 30% discount on movie tickets.
Following this, the theatre owner permitted him to put up a stall in front of his theatre last year.
The theatre owner learnt from a private bank that the person had swindled money from the accounts of a few customers after skimming their card details. Mr. Karthik, the theatre owner, lodged a complaint with the cyber crime cell of the Chennai police. After investigation, the CCB team traced the culprit.
Posing as a representative of mobile wallet companies, the accused secretly collected credit/debit cards details of customers who visited the theatres, using skimmer machines. He then prepared fake credit/debit cards in Chennai and withdrew the money from the customers’ accounts, the police said.
Police seized fake cards, encoders, laptops and skimmers from him and remanded him in judicial custody.