Bar waiter and associate arrested for alleged $100,000 bribery to capture credit card data for criminal syndicate
2002-6-19
The ICAC has arrested a bar waiter and his associate for an alleged $100,000 bribery scam to capture credit card data for a criminal syndicate to manufacture counterfeit credit cards.
The bar waiter and his associate were arrested in an ICAC operation on Monday (June 17).
The investigation arose from a corruption complaint from a bank, alleging that some employees of a bar might have accepted advantages to illegally capture customers' credit card data.
ICAC enquiries revealed that the bar waiter was allegedly provided with two skimmers by his associate to capture data from customers' credit cards for a criminal syndicate.
The bar waiter was allegedly promised a financial reward of $100,000 for capturing 200 sets of credit card data.
Enquiries also revealed that after capturing 10 sets of credit card data from customers, the bar waiter had returned the skimmers to his associate.
It was suspected that five sets of the captured data had been used for the manufacturing of counterfeit credit cards.
These counterfeit cards were subsequently used at various sales outlets in Hong Kong, causing the bank to incur a total loss of $110,000.
The two arrestees have been released on ICAC bail. Enquiries are continuing.
The bar waiter and his associate were arrested in an ICAC operation on Monday (June 17).
The investigation arose from a corruption complaint from a bank, alleging that some employees of a bar might have accepted advantages to illegally capture customers' credit card data.
ICAC enquiries revealed that the bar waiter was allegedly provided with two skimmers by his associate to capture data from customers' credit cards for a criminal syndicate.
The bar waiter was allegedly promised a financial reward of $100,000 for capturing 200 sets of credit card data.
Enquiries also revealed that after capturing 10 sets of credit card data from customers, the bar waiter had returned the skimmers to his associate.
It was suspected that five sets of the captured data had been used for the manufacturing of counterfeit credit cards.
These counterfeit cards were subsequently used at various sales outlets in Hong Kong, causing the bank to incur a total loss of $110,000.
The two arrestees have been released on ICAC bail. Enquiries are continuing.