Accounts were cleared in an international scam, which operated through a single card-cloning device in a sleepy village petrol station.
A garage worker has been sentenced by a Leicestershire court for running a secret card scam from a village petrol station.
Abdul Samad Mohamad Raik, working from a Jet outlet in the village of Houghton-on-the-Hill was found by police to have stolen the card details of customers, and to have used them to clear hundreds of bank accounts. The scam, which continued for three months until Mr Raik gave up his job in late 2007, was run through a counterfeit card reader - which secretly copied card numbers.
A total of £175,000 ($350,000) was stolen, with cash withdrawals made from countries including India, Canada and the Philippines. Mr Raik eventually gave himself up to police earlier this year - with the unexplained losses of money the talk of the village's 1,500 residents.
Jailing the worker for two years and nine months, recorder Duncan Smith at Leicester Crown Court said that Mr Raik had betrayed the petrol station's owner, Jim Funnell. "It was a gross breach of trust to your employer, who relies on the good faith of his staff and on the custom his customers bring him," he said.
"It was a huge fraud. One doesn't know how badly his business will be affected or if some people will choose to go elsewhere for their petrol."
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Fraud crimes will continue to grow until the government and banks exploit KEY and PIN system described on website www.xwave.co.uk which will make signature and PIN systems reliable and foolproof to deter fraudsters from getting tempted to misuse our stolen personal and card details.
Key and PIN system will deter virtually all types of fraud crimes including those Chip and PIN, data protection and biometric ID card systems will fail to deter.
This system will also eliminate the need for us to protect our personal an card details since fraudsters will not be tempted to misuse these stolen details.
Organisations would make their customers personalise signatures by letting them use mobile phone size device which will capture image and activate printer to print their ID sticker virtually instantly.
KEY and PIN system could be treated like international ID card since it will personalise signature and PIN to the right individual in any country in the world.
We hope that the banks and government will support and exploit proposed system before it is too late to stop a fraud boom.
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5th Aug 2008 22:43
This is outrageous. People must now be very cautious on how and where they use their credit cards to avoid becoming victims.
