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10 Jul 2002
Brazilian police have nabbed two men involved in a high-tech operation to clone bankcards and obtain customers' Pin codes.
Police in Santos, Sao Paulo arrested an IT specialist and an electrician on suspicion of fraud.
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Officers say that the pair installed a device inside a cash machine which read card numbers, and put a digital video camera on the ATM to film customers tapping in their Pin codes.
The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reported that police are unaware of how many cards were cloned, but suspect that the pair may be part of an organised gang.
The two men even put 'out of order' signs on two cash machines in the Itanharem neighbourhood, so that people had no choice but to use the ATM they had targeted.
They were arrested after local resident Vicente Paulino Medeiros alerted police to their suspicious behaviour.
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