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This story is the nightmare of credit card owners.
“On Tuesday evening, April 28, the operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Cybercrime Division conducted a raid on a house located along West Avenue, Quezon City,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
It turns out that the house has been used the headquarters of a crime group engaged in credit card fraud. Operatives found 97 international credit cards in the premises, as well as letters from banks with replacement cards.
According to the NBI, the suspects paid some people who had been tasked to deliver credit cards around PHP5,000 to PHP15,000 so they could get their hands on the cards.
Once they had the cards, the would then call the card owners and pretend to be bank employees so they could get the information they needed to use the “hijacked” credit cards.
The suspects will be charged for violating Republic Act 8484 or the Credit Card Fraud Law, falsification of public documents, and the Anti-Alias Law.
The NBI is asking credit card owners to make sure that they don’t disclose any information unless they’re sure that they’re talking to a legitimate bank employee.
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