Three Turkish men were arrested in Bangkok on Saturday for allegedly stealing about THB100 million with fake credit cards.
Yilmaz Serkan, 35, Sayman Ozgur Kazim, 37 and Vindin Erdinc, 35, were arrested at the Baan Sabai apartment building in Sathorn district, where police seized 58 fake credit cards, THB527,000 in cash, 333 blank plastic cards with a magnetic strip that can be encoded with data, a data recording device and forgery equipment, the Bangkok Post reported.
A tip-off that a gang was using fake credit cards to withdraw money from ATMs led to the arrests, Immigration Police Bureau Chief Wiboon Bangthamai said.
They used a computer program to obtain credit card information, which they then encoded onto the blank cards to use at ATMs around Ram Intra and Phra Khanong after midnight – withdrawing up to 500,000 baht per night, investigators said.
The money was then wired to accounts belonging to the ringleader in France.
The gang, which has been operating for about a year, managed to steal about THB100 million from mostly foreign nationals and some Thais, Lt. Gen. Wiboon said.
