Tamil Credit Card SCAM!!!

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Rugshanth Selvarajah,

Elangovan Ganeshamoorthy

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Breakthrough as two arrested over EFTPOS skimming fraud

JOSEPH SAPIENZA

December 23, 2009

A man arrested by police over the EFTPOS skimming scam arrives back in Perth last night. Photo: Channel Ten

Rugshanth Selvarajah,

Tamil Credit Card SCAM!!!

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Tamil Credit Card StarLondon, UK Reply »|Report Abuse| Judge it!|#1Wednesday Dec 23 Law abiding?From Times Online December 23, 2009Briton faces fraud charges over international debit card scamSophie Tedmanson in Sydney Recommend? A Tamil man has appeared in an Australian court to face charges over a multi-million dollar scam which police allege is the country’s largest debit card-skimming operation. British national Elangovan Ganeshamoorthy was extradited across the country from Sydney to Perth, in Western Australia, where the 36-year-old appeared in court on Wednesday. He faces charges of conspiracy to defraud following an international police investigation. Australian police allege Mr Ganeshamoorthy and a Canadian man were involved in an international crime syndicate that stole more than $AU4.5 million (£ 2.5million) from about 4,000 victims using a card skimming machine secretly placed in McDonalds restaurants in Western Australia. WA Major Fraud Squad Detective Senior Sergeant Don Heise described it as the “largest skimming crime to have happened in Australia”. Related LinksInternational spam mastermind fined Millions fooled by web 'scareware' scams Five new frauds to look out for The men are alleged to have gone to more than 20 McDonald's restaurants in the Perth metropolitan area, swapping the pin keypads on EFTPOS (Switch) machines at the outlets' drive-throughs in September. Police allege that after distracting staff and installing their own keypad, the men were able to gather credit and debit card information from McDonald's customers through Bluetooth file-sharing technology. It is alleged that during October up to $AU5 million was stolen from bank accounts using automatic teller machines in NSW, Victoria, Britain, Canada, the United States, India and Malaysia. Detective Senior Sargeant Heise said McDonald's outlets in Western Australia were targeted because of the type of pin keypad they used. Mr Ganeshamoorthy made no application for bail and was remanded to appear in the same court on January 22. His alleged accomplice, Rugshanth Selvarajah, 31, was arrested in Sydney on Tuesday. The Canadian national is expected to be extradited from Sydney to Perth to face charges tomorrow. According to police, conspiracy to defraud carried a maximum penalty of three and a half years jail, but police expect to lay further charges.

Two men have been arrested by police in Sydney in connection with the McDonald's EFTPOS skimming scam that has so far raided West Australian bank accounts of more than $5 million.

The WA Police major fraud squad said the breakthrough in the investigation was achieved through cooperation with national and international law enforcement agencies.

Both men have been charged with conspiracy to defraud over the scam, which targeted EFTPOS machines at WA McDonald's restaurants in October.

The major EFTPOS scam targeted McDonald's patrons.

Police claim the men formed part of an international organised crime syndicate responsible for a range of skimming crimes targeting West Australians. Once accounts were skimmed, money was withdrawn in NSW, Victoria, Canada, the UK, USA, India and Malaysia.

A 36-year-old British citizen who lives in the UK was arrested in Sydney on Monday and appeared in Parramatta Local Court yesterday, where Perth detectives successfully applied for him to be extradited to WA. He will appear in Perth Magistrates Court today after arriving in Perth last night.

A 31-year-old Canadian citizen who lives in Canada was also arrested in Sydney. He will appear in Parramatta court today where police will also seek his extradition to Perth. He is likely to arrive on Thursday.

Officer-in-charge of the major fraud squad, Detective Senior Sergeant Don Heise, said the skimming occurred through September after the pin pads at the drive-thru counters of more than 20 McDonald's restaurants in the Perth metropolitan area were replaced with compromised machines.

The bogus keypad would then transmit the card's information to a nearby mobile or laptop via Bluetooth technology.

The accounts of 4000 victims have been hacked into after the first withdrawal took place on October 5, with one suffering a loss of about $6000 to $7000.

Although the withdrawal of money has dried up since October, some amounts were still being taken out of ATMs around the world, but not a single cent has been taken out at a Perth machine.

"We know these two were involved with people doing the withdrawals," Detective Heise said. "There are other people involved (in this scam) as well."

"This is the largest skimming event that has occurred in Australia at this time."

Detective Heise said the two men could face other charges - including stealing and fraud which carried greater penalties - once they arrived in WA.

The conspiracy to defraud offences carried maximum jail terms of three and a half years, he said.

In a recent interview with WAtoday.com.au, Detective Don Heise from the fraud squad said he did not expect charges over the McDonald's skimming saga to be laid so quickly.

Scam was 'inevitable'

Detective Heise said it was inevitable that a scam of this magnitude was going to hit Perth.

"It (was) always going to happen - it happens around the world," he said.

"(It was a case of) just when and how professional they would be about it."

Unlike ATM skimming devices that were easy to locate, police said it was difficult to determine if keypads on the targeted machines had been tampered with.

"The shops can't see it and the customers can't see it so that exposed us much more than we had expected," Detective Heise said.

The McDonald's scam scooped more than $5 million from Perth bank accounts. But all of the money was withdrawn either in NSW and Victoria or offshore in Canada, the United Kingdom, India and Malaysia using fake bank cards.

"That's the issue that we've got," Detective Heise said. "The offenders are not here, the monies have been taken out at ATMs in the eastern states and overseas (and none in Perth), which causes jurisdictional issues as well for us."

Detective Heise said the McDonald's skimming scam was the biggest he had ever seen or investigated in terms of its sophistication, and was thankful the WA Government was planning to introduce anti-skimming and identity crime legislation that would see criminals jailed for five years.

He also warned the threat of becoming a victim of card skimming was "very much alive" during the Christmas period when people would be taking out more money than normal.

"Everywhere, people still have to skim their card, which means the next lot (of skimming) could be around the corner, next week or over Christmas."

Last month, a senior insider in Australia's EFTPOS industrytold WAtoday.com.au the main culprit in the scam was the EFTPOS pinpad used by McDonald's - and two other prominent national organisations.

The device was the Ingenico PX328 pinpad, a decade-old, once-dominant technology that has largely been superseded by other machines produced by the company.

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December 24, 2009

Canadian EFTPOS scam suspect Rugshanth Selvarajah arrives in Perth last night under police guard. Photo: Channel Ten

The second of two men allegedly involved in a multi-million dollar EFTPOS skimming fraud has appeared in a Perth court.

Canadian Rugshanth Selvarajah, 31, who's alleged to be part of an international ring involved in Australia's biggest card skimming operation, made a brief appearance in Perth Magistrates Court on a charge of conspiracy to defraud.

Like his co-accused, 36-year-old British man Elangovan Ganeshamoorthy, he was not required to plead and he was remanded in custody until January 22.

Both men were extradited from Sydney this week after police uncovered the robbery of $4.5 million from pin machines used at McDonald's fast food outlets.

WA police said on Thursday that in an unrelated matter, an ATM card skimming device had been found on an ATM in Perth's Murray Street Mall - part of the city's busiest shopping area.

It had been fitted into a Commonwealth Bank ATM and "strongly resembles the bank's ATM design", Sergeant Graham Clifford said.

Sergeant Clifford said people who had used the ATM or had concerns about other ATMs they had used should check their accounts.

Officers from the force's major fraud squad and major technology investigation unit were investigating the matter.

In a nationwide operation in April, ATM skimmers accessed cards on at least two machines in Perth, compromising accounts to the tune of more than $145,000.

Sydney was hardest hit, with police sources saying as many as 40 ATMs were targeted and netted a group of Romanian men around $500,000.

A total of nine Romanians were eventually charged over the skimming operation.

AAP

A SKIMMING device has been found on an ATM in a Perth city mall as West Australian authorities prosecute two men allegedly involved in an international Eftpos card skimming operation.

British man Elangovan Ganeshamoorthy, 36, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court yesterday and Canadian man Rugshanth Selvarajah, 31, appeared in the same court today.

Both men were extradited from Sydney after police uncovered the robbery of $4.5 million in what they said was Australia's biggest card skimming operation.

WA police today said that in an unrelated matter, an ATM card skimming device had been found on an ATM in Perth's Murray St Mall - part of the city's busiest shopping area.

It had been fitted onto a Commonwealth Bank ATM and "strongly resembles the bank's ATM design", police spokesman Graham Clifford said.

Sgt Clifford said people who had used the ATM or had concerns about other ATMs they have used should check their accounts.

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· Reader's Comments: Crims say Aussie ATM fraud 'easy'NEWS.com.au,

· Crims say Aussie ATM fraud 'easy'Perth Now, 17 Oct 2009

Officers from the force's major fraud squad and major technology investigation unit were investigating the matter.

In a nationwide operation in April, ATM skimmers accessed cards on at least two machines in Perth, compromising accounts to the tune of more than $145,000.

Sydney was hardest hit, with police sources saying as many as 40 ATMs were targeted and netted a group of Romanian men about $500,000.

A total of nine Romanians were eventually charged over the skimming operation.

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