Sharjah: The Sharjah Police on Monday arrested a Sri Lankan national for forging credit cards and feeding bank customers' information into them.
An official at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) explained that they had received a tip-off when the suspect used a forged credit card to withdraw money.
After verifying the information, police set up a trap to arrest the suspect.
"An undercover officer pretended to be a jewellery shopkeeper, and asked the suspect to swipe his credit card on the credit swipe machine in his shop and in exchange the suspect would receive the amount in cash as well as a commission," the police official said.
The suspect was then arrested and police discovered that he possessed four forged credit cards, out of which two belonged to local banks.
During the interrogation, the suspect confessed that all the cards in his possession were forged.
He explained that he had collected expired ATM cards and after purchasing equipment from an Asian-based website for Dh8,000, was able to delete all the information on the cards' magnetic band.
Identity theft
"The suspect then took information from bank customers who had their credit and debit cards stolen by purchasing it for Dh200 from an African website," he said.
Police then raided his home and found a large number of credit and debit cards, in addition to the equipment used for the crime. The case has been transferred to the Sharjah Public Prosecution.
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