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Seven postmen among 13 held over credit-card scam
A credit-card scam, involving postmen and a worker of the National Registration Department, was smashed recently with the arrest of 13 suspects. -New Straits Times

Wed, Apr 13, 2011
New Straits Times
KUALA LUMPUR: A credit-card scam, involving postmen and a worker of the National Registration Department, was smashed recently with the arrest of 13 suspects. The scam involved the lifting of the chip from genuine credit cards posted to the owners by various banks.
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<!-- End Related Links -->The syndicate members would then replace the chip with a fake one, which would be sent to the unsuspecting owner.
By the time the ruse was spotted, the syndicate would have made purchases of up to thousands of ringgit using the original chip, which would be affixed to a fake credit card.
Police believe that the syndicate had amassed up to RM1 million in cash and valuables using this ploy.
Deputy police chief Datuk Amar Singh Ishar Singh said seven postmen, a NRD staff and three women were arrested in a nine-day operation which began on April 1. They were nabbed at several undisclosed locations in the Klang Valley.
Police also seized a car, 19 handphones and 11 envelopes containing genuine credit cards, which were meant to be posted to the owners by various banks.
Police had a breakthrough in their investigations on April 1 after a syndicate member was arrested while attempting to claim an envelope containing a credit card at a post office in Taman Shamelin here.
Amar said the clerk alerted police, saying that a man was trying to claim a letter using a fake identification.
"We arrested the suspect and upon checking, learnt that the credit card owner was a woman. We also found 10 fake credit cards on him."
Initial investigations also revealed that the syndicate, which had been operating since 2009, enlisted the help of postmen to identify envelopes containing credit cards. The postmen were paid RM100 (S$41.50) for each card.
The role of the NRD staff was to provide the syndicate the name of a credit card owner's mother to the syndicate.
It is learnt that to activate the card, banks usually would ask cardholders' maiden's name as a security measure.
Amar said police were still tracking down the remaining members of the syndicate.
Pos Malaysia Berhad group managing director/chief executive officer Datuk Syed Faisal Albar said they were assisting police in the investigations.
Faisal said the company had a zero-tolerance policy towards tampering and abuse of mail.
-New Straits Times
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