<p>Two foreign nationals, including a woman, are in police custody for allegedly stealing people’s money by installing skimmers at an ATM in RT Nagar, North Bengaluru.</p>.<p>The RT Nagar police have arrested Felix Kisiibo (25) from Uganda, and Khairun Abdullah (32) from Tanzania, and are on the lookout for their associates involved in the racket. </p>.<p>A laptop, 12 debit cards of different banks, three mobile phones, a skimmer machine base, loader and a hidden camera and a bank account with Rs 22,000 balance have been seized from them. </p>.<p>The duo rented a house in Kogilu near Yelahanka and are students of Pharmacy in a private college.</p>.<p>In his police complaint, branch manager of Union Bank (Corporation Bank), Ganganagar branch, Srinivas Reddy said on June 14, maintenance staffer Uma Shankar noticed two foreign nationals, including a woman, spending a lot of time in the kiosk.</p>.<p>They had a skimmer, many debit cards and were withdrawing money. When he questioned them, they left the kiosk in a hurry. </p>.<p>“While investigating the case, we contacted a few foreign nationals to get clues on the duo and zeroed on them in Kogilu,” an investigating officer said.</p>.<p>The accused had installed a skimmer device over the card reader in ATMs to steal customers’ data from the magnetic stripe of the cards and then would clone the cards. A hidden camera to access the PIN of the card owners was also<br />used.</p>.<p>The police have registered a case under the Information Technology Act and Cheating and a probe is on. </p>
<p>Two foreign nationals, including a woman, are in police custody for allegedly stealing people’s money by installing skimmers at an ATM in RT Nagar, North Bengaluru.</p>.<p>The RT Nagar police have arrested Felix Kisiibo (25) from Uganda, and Khairun Abdullah (32) from Tanzania, and are on the lookout for their associates involved in the racket. </p>.<p>A laptop, 12 debit cards of different banks, three mobile phones, a skimmer machine base, loader and a hidden camera and a bank account with Rs 22,000 balance have been seized from them. </p>.<p>The duo rented a house in Kogilu near Yelahanka and are students of Pharmacy in a private college.</p>.<p>In his police complaint, branch manager of Union Bank (Corporation Bank), Ganganagar branch, Srinivas Reddy said on June 14, maintenance staffer Uma Shankar noticed two foreign nationals, including a woman, spending a lot of time in the kiosk.</p>.<p>They had a skimmer, many debit cards and were withdrawing money. When he questioned them, they left the kiosk in a hurry. </p>.<p>“While investigating the case, we contacted a few foreign nationals to get clues on the duo and zeroed on them in Kogilu,” an investigating officer said.</p>.<p>The accused had installed a skimmer device over the card reader in ATMs to steal customers’ data from the magnetic stripe of the cards and then would clone the cards. A hidden camera to access the PIN of the card owners was also<br />used.</p>.<p>The police have registered a case under the Information Technology Act and Cheating and a probe is on. </p>
