AMMAN: The Jordanian authorities have arrested 12 non-Arab foreigners for committing automated teller machines (ATMs) fraud and warned that the suspects could be part of a regional gang, officials said here on Friday.
The thieves, who are believed to have been operating in the country for two weeks, installed card skimmers and small cameras on ATMs around Amman, using these devices to collect customers’ bankcard information and withdraw money from their accounts, Public Security Department spokesman Maj. Mohammad Khatib said.
All of them are believed to be part of a network of ATM thieves working in several countries in the region, he added.
The gang’s devices made it possible to read bankcards’ magnetic strips and record personal identification numbers (PINs) entered by bank clients, Khatib said.
Policemen raided the homes of the gang members, arrested them and seized their laptops, along with numerous fake bankcards on which they stored the stolen data and which they used to make withdrawals or purchases.
