shygye Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 Watch out Brits! Link Four Romanians were arrested by Phuket police yesterday and charged with running an ATM card scam that is claimed to have stolen 100 million baht. The four were named by police as Gavrila Florin Eugen, 33; Ene Bogdan Constantin, 23; Vilvoi Claudiu Constantin, 36; and Gavrila Alexandra, 26. All four suspects were arrested at their rented room at the Azzurro Village Hotel on Rat-U-Thit 200 Pee Road in Patong. In the room, police found 211 unformatted ATM cards and a “skimmer†that reads data from genuine ATM cards issued by banks. Once captured by the skimmer, that data can be printed onto "blank" ATM cards. Also seized as evidence were two laptop computers and a USB drive. Maj Gen Panya Mamen, deputy commissioner of the Criminal Investigation Bureau in Bangkok, explained at a press conference in Phuket today that the arrests followed receipt by the Transnational Crime Suppression Center of tip-offs from the London Metropolitan Police and Siam Commercial Bank. “The tip-offs gave information about foreigners being involved in ATM scams in tourist hot spots, including Bangkok, Pattaya, Hua Hin and Phuket,†he said. The complaints from London and the bank reported that ATMs in the UK were fitted with devices to record account information to a USB drive. The USB drive was then brought to Thailand, where the account information was transferred onto blank ATM cards, after which money was withdrawn from the accounts using local ATMs, Maj Gen Panya explained. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 100 million baht and the data for the scame was all on a USB drive! Damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 You'd think they would live in better diggs for 100m bht! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 The solution I guess is to stay away from Romanians whilst in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelseafan Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 Someone didnt pay their tea-money..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Himmaparn Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 The solution I guess is to stay away from Romanians whilst in Thailand. While they are known for their travelling roofing & siding scams in the US apparently those won't work in LOS so they are now going high tech! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted March 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 The solution I guess is to stay away from Romanians whilst in Thailand. You missed the part that the ATM details were stolen in the UK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 You missed the part that the ATM details were stolen in the UK! Indeed. A wrinkle that may not be ironed out easily. So were the Romanians from the UK? And if so, how could they be spotted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozpharlap Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 We all know who TOSZwEwl_1Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous God Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 5555555555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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