Coimbatore: The town police have asked people to make use of debit cards in ATM centres with warning after finding a skimmer software inside an ATM of City Union Bank near Mettupalayam Road New Bus Stand at Saibaba Colony. They additionally discovered a cellular phone in the centre and suspect that miscreants might have used the phone with camera to assemble PIN quantity main points of debit cards.
Staff of a non-public firm, who got here to the ATM centre to fill up cash in the system, had discovered the skimmer software and the cellular phone on Friday. They knowledgeable Saibaba Colony (crime) police inspector L Senthilkumar and staff, who had been on rounds near the bus stand.
Police mentioned miscreants had installed the software at the ATM centre to assemble debit card main points of customers. "They also fixed the mobile camera with recording options to capture the PIN number while people pressed the key pad. We approach the bank authorities to get the CCTV footage of the ATM centre so that it would be helpful to find the culprits," mentioned Senthilkumar.
The police have formed a special staff to nab the culprits.
Staff of a non-public firm, who got here to the ATM centre to fill up cash in the system, had discovered the skimmer software and the cellular phone on Friday. They knowledgeable Saibaba Colony (crime) police inspector L Senthilkumar and staff, who had been on rounds near the bus stand.
Police mentioned miscreants had installed the software at the ATM centre to assemble debit card main points of customers. "They also fixed the mobile camera with recording options to capture the PIN number while people pressed the key pad. We approach the bank authorities to get the CCTV footage of the ATM centre so that it would be helpful to find the culprits," mentioned Senthilkumar.
The police have formed a special staff to nab the culprits.
Skimmer device found attached in city ATM
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