"Payback" TERMINAL OR "aftertaste" catering

Convenience and reliability of bank cards has been appreciated by many. On the "plastic" translated salary and pension. Card eliminates the need to carry cash, which can be lost or they may fall prey to a thief. However, today's criminals keep your eyes open, trying to keep up with the times.

Whole scheme developed one young murmanchanin who invented a way to steal money from the accounts of cardholders. Scored a team of associates and began to implement the plan. The criminals got hold of a special device that replicated the cards, so-called skimmer. According to the "Preview" copies of maps were produced with the help of which the ATM to withdraw cash. Total attackers managed to steal from the accounts of depositors of more than 500 thousand rubles.

- Attackers arranged to work in bars and shops of Murmansk, - said the head of the department "K" AMIA Russia's Murmansk region Vadim Gavriliouk. - So they get access to cards that seamlessly copied. In the eyes of clients make it impossible, so they took the card, copy, and then returned with a check. Then, when people enter a PIN code, young people memorized sequence of numbers. With duplication cash funds at ATMs of the city.

Gradually attackers Embroidery, whether abroad Murmansk region, their accomplices began to copy the card in bars, restaurants, cafes in St. Petersburg.

- During the arrest of members of the group were seized modified their payment terminals, - explained the deputy chief of the Investigation of the SU Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Murmansk region Ryan Wigglesworth. - Also, they found a device for reading and copying bank cards, counterfeit cards. In the apartment of one of the men seized containers with bushes of hemp.

The specialists underline that for security purposes under any circumstances can not be given a plastic card to strangers. If the person using it to pay in a cafe or restaurant, then he should demand that the payment terminal brought directly to the table. If there is no catering in the portable terminal, it is easier to go to a stationary, than to lose the finances.

The money was returned to investors. Since January this year, banks are required to compensate the lost money. Of course, in that case, if it is determined that the money actually stolen.

- Means, of course, return, and another thing - when? - Said Vadim Gavriliouk. - And if the money will go to the cards resting in another region or abroad? Any difficulties and vacation will be spoiled. In Russia, such crimes are not very common, but abroad - are not uncommon.

Currently, law enforcement officers worked through the involvement of members of an organized group to other episodes of criminal activity. The criminal investigation continues.