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British credit card swindler had Lankan cards
Monday, 14 January 2008 - 12:54 PM SL Time
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A British man who tried to purchase gold jewellery worth Rs. 142,000 from a shop in India was arrested when it was found out that he was using forged credit cards to purchase the goods.
Among the credit cards Wilfred Louis had were those from Sampath Bank and People`s Bank.
Louis had tried to purchase gold jewellery from a shop on Thursday. When the shopkeeper swiped the card, he got a call from the bank that a forged card had been used and asked them to stop the person.
Navrangpura police were called in and Louis was detained. Navrangpura police filed a complaint for misuse of a credit card account. `Louis had a bag which had pounds, Indian currency and his passport.
We have informed higher officials and the UK embassy has been told about his detention,` said RD Rawal, sub-inspector of Navrangpura.
Police found five credit cards of HDFC, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Commonwealth Bank and CIBC Bank, but were shocked to find that these were `play cards`.
They also found that Louis was operating other bank accounts which had collaboration with Visa and Master Card.
`We believe he may have purchased credit card information from bank personnel and then used it to purchase expensive goods and sell them off.
We have also tracked some of the mails to New Delhi,` police said. `He was using cards of Aerogold card of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Barclays Bank of UK, Royal Bank of Canada, Sampath Bank of Sri Lanka and People`s Bank of Sri Lanka.
All these banks have arrangement with Indian banks for credit,` police said.Officials found out that Louis had more than three email accounts where he used to get messages from his partners.
He used words like `scheme`, `exports of items`, `route`, `business` to describe his dealings.
There were words such as `Babi` that the officials could not understand. Mail also revealed confidential information such as PIN of ATM cards and PAN and other verification attributes of more than 15 accounts of various banks.
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