A view of the ATM. A group of young people was stealing money via the credit cards executed in the name of the residents of Tyumen, Omsk and Kurgan regions, investigators found out.
Photo: Valery Melnikov
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Russian Standard Bank Attacked by Carders
Investigators of the Ural Federal District detained a gang of criminals that stole around 10 million rubles from Russian Standard Bank via the false credit cards. The case is the biggest fraud with credit cards that ever happened in Urals.
In 2006, a number of Tyumen residents received letters from Russian Standard Bank ordering them to pay off the 40,000-ruble credits. The people found the demand rather alarming, as they had raised no money with the bank.
In the bank, they learnt that Russian Standard sent registered credit cards to them by post. By using these cards, the persons, who have been once granted consumer credits and duly settled them, may borrow 40,000 rubles in addition. The money was received via the ATMs, but not by the persons it was meant for.
A group of young people was stealing money via the credit cards executed in the name of the residents of Tyumen, Omsk and Kurgan regions, investigators found out. By luring a few post officers and employing the criminals to post offices, the gang could intercept registered letters with confidential data about the contracts for credit service of the cards that the bank addressed to its clients.
Through the bank managers involved in the criminal chain and using the above information, the criminals used the false data to enter into financial relations with the bank and get access codes to activate the credit cards. In the last effort, they withdrew money from the ATMs.
Prosecutors initiated 30 criminal cases, which were combined into single proceedings. Seven most active members of the gang, including the leaders, have been arrested. The overall damage is estimated at nearly 10 million rubles, while about 200 residents of three regions of Urals and Siberia were called the victims of the crimes.
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All the Article in Russian as of Feb. 06, 2007
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