Security guards foil ATM robbery
A foreigner who used fake cards to withdraw cash from a Dong A Bank ATM
is caught by security guards in Ho Chi Minh City on Aug.5, the
bank's deputy general director Nguyen Quoc Toan said.
A foreigner who used fake cards to withdraw cash from a Dong A Bank ATM
is caught by security guards in Ho Chi Minh City on Aug.5, the
bank's deputy general director Nguyen Quoc Toan said.
A Romanian, named only as Ciprian, is caught using forged credit and ATM cards with Dong A and 10 other banks' names to withdraw over 300 million VND (14,400 USD) from an ATM at the junction of Tran Cao Van and Hai Ba Trung streets in District 3 at midnight.
He is handed over to the police. But an accomplice escaped. At the ATM police also found counterfeiting equipment carried by the men.
In another card fraud case, two Malaysian nationals are arrested in Da Nang on Saturday for using fake credit cards to buy diamonds at a jeweller's in the Indochina Riverside Building on Bach Dang Street .
Ling Seng Koey, 24, and Chong Kon Hoi, 47, are seized by the security guards after staff found that the credit cards the two had used to pay 54 million VND (2,580 USD) are forged.
Another Malaysian who had accompanied them fled with the diamonds, but is arrested early the next morning. Police identified him as 30-year-old Wong Kar Wei and found on him a number of diamond necklaces, 18 credit cards, and several passports issued by ASEAN member countries.
The suspects, who entered Vietnam on July 27, had cheated many other Da Nang shopping malls and supermarkets like Big C and Phi Long to the tune of nearly 60 million VND, the city police told a press conference on Aug.6 afternoon.-VNA
A Romanian, named only as Ciprian, is caught using forged credit and ATM cards with Dong A and 10 other banks' names to withdraw over 300 million VND (14,400 USD) from an ATM at the junction of Tran Cao Van and Hai Ba Trung streets in District 3 at midnight.
He is handed over to the police. But an accomplice escaped. At the ATM police also found counterfeiting equipment carried by the men.
In another card fraud case, two Malaysian nationals are arrested in Da Nang on Saturday for using fake credit cards to buy diamonds at a jeweller's in the Indochina Riverside Building on Bach Dang Street .
Ling Seng Koey, 24, and Chong Kon Hoi, 47, are seized by the security guards after staff found that the credit cards the two had used to pay 54 million VND (2,580 USD) are forged.
Another Malaysian who had accompanied them fled with the diamonds, but is arrested early the next morning. Police identified him as 30-year-old Wong Kar Wei and found on him a number of diamond necklaces, 18 credit cards, and several passports issued by ASEAN member countries.
The suspects, who entered Vietnam on July 27, had cheated many other Da Nang shopping malls and supermarkets like Big C and Phi Long to the tune of nearly 60 million VND, the city police told a press conference on Aug.6 afternoon.-VNA
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