Tag: credit card scam
Police warn holiday shoppers to stay vigilant
(CNS): The RCIPS Financial Crimes Unit is warning holiday shoppers to be careful of card skimming and internet scams, especially when purchasing goods online. With an increase in wire transfers resulting from scams, police are urging people to be distrust banking instructions received over email purporting to be from genuine banks, treat any communications carefully and call the bank to […]
How ATM scammers steal customer information
(CNS Business): Devices that capture your debit card information at ATMs are becoming more popular with crooks. On a global scale, data reports show “ATM skimming” is on the rise, and its also plaguing local ATMs in the Cayman Islands. The fraud technique has already succeeded in stealing around $250,000 this year.
Criminal tourist scams supermarket ATM machines
(CNS): An Eastern European national visiting the Cayman Islands has been jailed for 16 months after he was caught attempting to steal cash, having skimmed hundreds of Cayman National Bank customers cards. Using a swipe machine and mini-cameras at CNB’s well-used ATMs at the Strand and Airport branches of Foster’s, Andon Smilyanov (32) was caught […]
Romanian scammers jailed for three years
(CNS): Two men involved in an “international criminal conspiracy” and scam perpetrated against local banks with cloned credit cards were handed three year jail terms Thursday. Roland Pop (40) and Ianaca Vlismas (39) received four and half years for their part in the scam, in which the judge estimated they could have stolen as much […]
Woman found guilty in Romanian card scam
(CNS): A Romanian woman accused of being a conspirator in a scheme to steal money by cloning credit cards was found guilty of criminal possession Monday when the verdict was delivered in the Grand Court. Mariana Opriniou was tried on two counts, and while Justice Michael Mettyear found the woman was knowingly in possession of […]
‘No proof’ Romanian woman knew of scam
(CNS): A local defence attorney said the crown had offered no real evidence that her client knew anything at all about her boyfriend’s plans to rip off local ATM machines when they visited Cayman on what she thought was a romantic holiday. But the prosecution said the judge trying the case “could draw the inescapable […]
Romanian mother refused bail at tearful hearing
(CNS): A Romanian woman who is alleged to be part of a credit card scam was refused bail on Friday and remanded back to Fairbanks prison following an emotional hearing in which her boyfriend tried to plead her innocence. Mariana Oprinoiu has denied conspiring with her boyfriend, Florin Roata, and two others to steal thousands […]
