Jamaica police reportedly have arrested four men allegedly involved in a credit and debit card fraud ring.
The Jamaica Observer, citing authorities, reported Jan. 7 that the arrests came after separate investigations targeting the alleged fraudsters following an increase in card fraud in western Jamaica.
A 24-year-old man, who police said worked at a major bank, allegedly was conspiring with a gang to sell them fraudulently produced debit cards.
“Cards belonging to one bank but fraudulently pinned with another bank’s details were allegedly found in the man’s possession,” police investigators said in a statement.
A 22-year-old man also was arrested for allegedly possessing several counterfeit debit cards, which police say were used at various merchants to make purchases.
The Jamaican police Organized Crime Investigation Division also arrested two men who allegedly possessed credit and debit card manufacturing equipment. Among the items were a machine used to encode information on card magnetic stripes, a card-embossing machine and a laptop with a card reader used to encode cards.
The men also possessed a list of credit card numbers belonging to customers of various banks, a fake Florida driver’s license and a counterfeit Visa-branded payment card police say the men created.
The men also allegedly cloned a credit card belonging to a tourist and used it to buy US$8,000 in purchases at various merchants in western Jamaica.
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