Delhi restaurant staff arrested for cloning cards of customers

An employee of a Restaurant at Connaught Place has been arrested for cloning debit and credit card of their customers. During an investigation, it was revealed that Pankaj, a staff of the restaurant was responsible for all the illegal transactions from the credit and debit cards.

New Delhi: An employee of a private restaurant in Central Delhi has been arrested for allegedly cloning debit and credit cards of customers and duping them of nearly Rs 4 lakh, the police have said.

The accused has been identified as Pankaj Kumar, working as a steward staff at the restaurant.

On February 14, a private bank had filed a case that few of their customers reported disputed transactions over their credit and debit cards. Moreover, the cards were in possession of the customers at the time of those transactions, Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Madhur Verma had said.

During the course of investigation, it was revealed that one of the restaurants in Connaught Place was the common point of purchase for all the cards. Police matched all the dates when the cards were compromised at that restaurant, and found that the accused - Pankaj, was the person who had attended all the customers whose cards had disputed transactions, Vermaremarked.

Thereafter, police laid a trap at the restaurant and apprehended Pankaj and one skimmer was recovered from him.

During interrogation, Pankaj told police that he had learnt to clone cards from one - Rahul. He used to re-swap cards of the customers and noted down their last four digits, PIN and bank name. He handed over the skimmer having data of cards and other details to Rahul, maintained the officials.

Verma also said that they (the accused) refrained from using the cloned cards for more than a month so that no one would doubt about their card being compromised at the restaurant. "A total ofRs 3,75,300 was transferred from the accounts," he added, saying that they were on the lookout for Rahul.