26 December,2020 07:46 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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An alert truck driver from Uttar Pradesh helped catch a debit card cloner red-handed as he was fixing a skimming device into an ATM in Bhiwandi. According to police, Mohammad Israr Zahid Ansari (29), a resident of Muzaffarnagar in UP, who works for a transport company in Navi Mumbai, stepped into an ATM booth, which has two machines, on December 12.
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After Ansari, another man identified as Mohammad Aftab Khan entered and began fidgeting with the other ATM. Speaking to Mumbai Mirror, a police officer said, "Ansari found his behaviour suspicious and noticed that he was carrying a small device with him."
Upon realising that Khan was trying to tamper with the ATM, Ansari raised an alarm and with the help of passers-by, he captured Khan and called the police. During questioning, Khan, a resident of Sakinaka, confessed that he was trying to install a debit card cloning device to steal users' data.
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Khan has been arrested under Sections 379 (theft), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), and 511 (attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) of the Indian Penal Code.
Debit cards can be cloned and bank accounts can be compromised if hackers attach a skimming device to the card slot that can scan and store multiple cards' data - the PIN. The cloned data can then be replicated on a blank debit card and can be used to perform multiple fraudulent transactions by imposters.
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