Delhi Police has arrested three persons for cloning credit and debit cards of customers visiting a petrol pump at Lodhi Road here and withdrawing money from the accounts of the card holders.
Acting on a tip-off that the three would assemble near the petrol pump, the police reached the spot and arrested Ashish (25), Rajesh (31), and Kamal (29).
In the preliminary investigation, it was revealed that Ashish, who started working as an attendant at the petrol pump in March, used to swipe the data of the debit/credit cards of the customers into an encoder so that it would be copied into the machine, police said.
The pin was obtained by making the customer enter the number repeatedly in the swiping machine of the petrol pump, so that he could visually see and memorise it, they said.
The data was then provided to Rajesh and Kamal who decoded the information with the help of another machine. The decoded data was then transferred on to dummy smart cards which were used to withdraw money from ATMs situated at isolated places, police said.
The equipment involved in cloning -- encoder, decoder, and laptop -- has been recovered.
The accused informed that they had till date cloned 30 such cards and had bought a Honda City Car from the proceeds of the crime.
