PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC—Police Friday stated they’d arrested two Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) nationals for ‘skimming,’ a type of fraud wherein criminals copy the debit card particulars to steal cash from their victims.
The police stated that they’d arrested a 40-year-old Trinidadian and a 39-year-old Guyanese after a girl. Final week, a girl filed a report indicating that a lot cash had disappeared from her checking account.
The assertion obtained from her financial institution confirmed that SRD 10,000 (One SRD =US$0.03) had been withdrawn from an ATM in Paramaribo and {that a} cost of SRD 28,000 had been made with a debit card at an electronics retailer within the capital.
The girl stated she had not made these transactions and filed a report with the police.
The police stated the 2 Caribbean nationals have been later arrested and that it has change into obvious that the 2 males should know extra a couple of collection of debit card fraud instances in latest days.
Police stated they discovered and confiscated 94 counterfeit debit playing cards within the suspects’ automobile. The Fraud Division of the Suriname Police Drive is additional investigating the case.
On Thursday, the Surinamese Bankers Affiliation (SBA) warned residents to be alert as a result of debit card fraud instances had been found.
The Suriname Cyber Safety Incident Response Workforce (SURCSIRT) of the Directorate of Nationwide Safety additionally reported the rise in skimming instances and referred to as on residents to be alert.
Since final Tuesday, the SURCSIRT has acquired varied experiences of skimming actions at ATMs in Paramaribo. SURCSIRT is at present conducting a large-scale investigation into these actions with the stakeholders.
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