Two men have been arrested and 66 fraudulent credit cards have been seized by gardaí investigating the cloning and skimming of bank and credit cards.
Officers connected to the street crime unit operating out of Pearse Street station in Dublin carried out an operation targeting people suspected in being involved in the practice on Thursday. “Gardaí from Pearse Street identified two males on Bedford Lane, Dublin 2, who they believed to be involved in this activity,” a Garda spokesman said. “One of these males attempted to conceal a wallet which contained seven bank cards, which have been identified as cloned fraudulent cards.”A search of the second male’s wallet led to the discovery of five fraudulent cards. Both men, who are aged in their 30s, were arrested.
The Garda spokesman said a BMW SUV was searched as part of a follow-up operation and 13 fraudulent cards were seized along with “expensive designer clothing and a number of receipts for other expensive goods believed to have been purchased using cloned credit cards in the Dublin City area”.
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