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Police seize credit card machine by Jayampathy Jayasinghe Acting on a complaint from the Interpol branch in London, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) have seized a sophisticated machine that is capable of transferring data of credit cards into new ones. A court order had been obtained for the seizure, a police spokesman told the "Sunday Observer." He said the machine was confiscated from the Colombo port before the local firm in Colombo 7 which imported it, could clear it without a hassle. Meanwhile Interpol had also informed that a Sri Lankan domiciled in the United Kingdom linked to several rackets was behind the move. The man was instrumental in purchasing the machine on behalf of the Sri Lankan company for a sum of 9000 Sterling pounds and shipping it across here. The machine had been imported to the country on August 26. A spokesman for the CID said the machine had the capacity to produce around 25,000 credit cards for a day as well as skimming or transferring relevant data of other credit cards. " This could have led to major credit card frauds in the country," he said. Asked whether similar machines have been imported into the country before, the spokesman said they are investigating as to how many similar machines were available here. Meanwhile the CID has received complaints from foreigners that they have been debited for goods which they have not purchased while holidaying in Sri Lanka. However due to lacuna in laws relating to computer frauds the country has become a fertile ground for credit card frauds, the spokesman said. |
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