Man held for ATM hacking
A Romanian man was arrested on Sukhumvit Soi 7 for hacking into European banks' customer information to make withdrawals from automated teller machines (ATMs) in Thailand.
Tourist Police yesterday presented to the press the suspect, Lozinca George Alexandru, 22, along with Bt6,000 cash, 655 fake electronic cards, a magneticstrip reader and recorder, and a notebook computer.
Siam Commercial Bank’s fraudprevention officials had alerted police about the unauthorised withdrawals.
After police identified the suspect from a picture by an ATM security camera, they found the man withdrawing cash from a machine on Sukhumvit Soi 7 and followed him to his apartment, where they uncovered more fake cards.
He allegedly told police that he and two other Romanians came to Thailand on October 19. They withdrew about Bt50 million cash and sent the money to the gang leader in Romania after taking a 10percent cut.
Police are looking for the two other gang members.
