Restaurant staff ‘stole bank card details’
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CITY restaurant and entertainment venue staff are among 51 people held in connection with a nationwide forged bank card network said to have netted nearly 10 million yuan (US$1.62 million).
Six people were held in Shanghai and 46 in southern China’s Guangdong Province in a joint police operation.
Waiting staff in restaurants and entertainment venues in Xuhui District and the Pudong New Area are suspected of stealing diners’ card information, including credit card and debit card, using special devices, said police.
The Shanghai suspects have since been arrested, prosecutors said.
All those held are alleged to have been involved in an operation in which personal information was bought or stolen and used in forged cards.
Officers in Zhabei District were alerted on March 5 after a man found that 360,000 yuan had been stolen from his bank account.
Police found that account information had been copied last November when the victim used his card to pay at a local restaurant.
According to police, network members then discovered that their victim had bought a financial product that would bring him a big interest payment in March.
They allegedly waited four months and once the interest payment was deposited made two transfers using the forged details in March.
Officers traced the accounts the funds had been transferred to, discovering that the cash had been moved to two third-party accounts.
Because the first 150,000 yuan transferred was still in the third-party account, police had the account frozen.
However, the second transfer of 210,000 yuan, had already been withdrawn.
Police suspected that a man named Hu Di living in Guangdong Province, had forged the card and made the transfer.
The suspects were held on May 20. More than 1,000 pieces of bank card information were found with 25 special POS machines seized.
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