Close-up of the method of stealing ATM card information and withdrawing all the money from customers in Nghe An
Pham Bang•DNUM_BGZAJZCABJ 14:06
(Baonghean.vn) - It only takes Chinese people 1 minute to install an electronic device, then wait 4-6 hours to steal customers' account information and enter it into a fake ATM card to withdraw all the money.
(Baonghean.vn) - 3 Chinese people entered Vietnam, used electronic devices to steal information from customers' ATM cards, then forged ATM cards and appropriated hundreds of millions of dong.
Video of the subjects committing the crime recorded by the bank's security camera. Video provided by the police
On the morning of September 16, the Vinh City Police Department organized a crime scene reenactment. Vinh City Police determined that this was the case with the largest number of fake ATM cards ever discovered and arrested by the police. Photo: Pham Bang
Yang Chang Cai was identified as the leader of this gang. Before entering Vinh City, these subjects committed crimes in Hai Duong, Thai Nguyen provinces, and Hanoi. In each locality, they rented a hotel to stay for about 3-4 days and then moved to another location. Photo: Pham Bang
Lian Yu was assigned to open the keyboard cover and install electronic devices at ATMs to steal customers' account information. Then, another person came to remove these devices. Another person sat in the hotel to download the information collected by these devices and then transmitted it to China. Photo: Pham Bang
Video of the whole case. Xuan Bac - Duc Vu
It only takes 1 minute for these subjects to install electronic devices and then they wait about 4-6 hours to steal customer information. The time they install the cameras is around late afternoon and evening, this is the time when customers often use ATM cards. Photo: Pham Bang
These subjects installed a mini camera on the keyboard to read ATM card information, another mini camera installed on the card reader to get information about the account, cardholder name, amount of money in the card... and then transferred it to China. A subject in China "decoded" this information, then entered it into fake ATM cards and transferred it back to the subjects in Vietnam. These subjects then used this fake ATM card to withdraw all the money in the account to appropriate. Photo: Duc Vu
When arresting these subjects, the police seized 333 fake ATM cards, of which 319 had been scanned with information about the account holders, 22 had had money withdrawn from the accounts with an amount of nearly 300 million VND and 14 were blank cards. These fake ATM cards were all brought from China. Photo: Xuan Bac
Vinh City Police are temporarily detaining 3 suspects. In the photo are Yang Chang Cai (black shirt) and Lian Yu (brown shirt). In addition, the Investigation Team is also verifying information about 2 Chinese suspects who play an important role in this case. Photo: Duc Vu
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