The men cheated at least eight people in rural areas of Panchkula by swapping their debit cards under the pretext of assisting them to withdraw money from ATM kiosks.
The Malad police are on the lookout for unknown persons, who allegedly inserted an object in an ATM machine due to which the cash would not dispense due to the blockage.
Fraudsters are inventing new ways of cheating customers on a daily basis while the grievance redressal mechanism is not getting corrected at the same pace.
According to the police, in recent times cases of people being cheated at the ATM centres in different areas of MBVV were witnessed following which the police had been keeping a vigil to nab the culprits
ATM Card Skimming: Fraudsters take advantage of the skimming devices that are difficult to spot as these machines are often placed over the legitimate card reader and can be made to look like a part of the machine. aaa