ATM Card hackers in Douala police dragnet

Four financial hackers of Nigerian nationality are currently helping the Judicial Police in Douala with investigations after they were napped for reproducing Automated Teller Machine, ATM, cards and clearing victims’ accounts.

Their modus-operandi was simple. They would place a device beside an ATM machine that films important information on clients’ cards, including the access code. After the client leaves, they retrieve the device, reproduce the card, empty the account and transfer the booty into their various accounts back at home.     

Following tipoff, operatives of the Judicial Police led by the Head of Laboratory, Scientific and Technical Police Service, together with men of the Special Rapid Intervention Units, stormed a hotel room in the Nkololoun neighbourhood on December 2, 2015 and arrested them.

Police also recovered three reproduced ATM cards, 50 virgin cards, two machines for card production, two camera pens, three Iphones of 4, 5 and 6 makes, two flat screen television sets, four passports and many money transfer forms. Asibeuo Cecil, Odion Prosper, Tony Daraugo and Obiagu, are said to have robbed many people of their hard-earned money.