The National police’s special crimes unit has arrested a credit card fraud suspect, identified as DDB, 26, an employee with the US-based Starbucks coffee shop in Jakarta.
The unit chief Sr. Comr. Winston Tommy Watuliu said the suspect, a university graduate, collected data of the credit cards from the coffee shop customers’ receipts, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
“The suspect re-printed the receipts and recorded the credit cards’ verification codes,” he said, adding that the DDB worked at Starbucks shop in Tebet, South Jakarta.
Winston said that the DDB used the stolen verification codes to purchase an Ipod Nano and Ipod Touch digital music players for more than 50 transactions from March-June for business.
“In April, a private bank filed a report over credit card fraud and asked us to investigate it,” he added.
The police arrested the DDB at his rented room in Jakarta on Sunday and seized 32 receipts, seven boxes of Ipod Nanos and a box of Ipod Touch as well as 18 pages of deliverance invoices as evidence.
“The crime has caused about hundreds of million of rupiah in losses because each transaction from a stolen credit card was worth Rp 2-3 million,” said Winston.
DDB is facing multi-charges for allegedly violating the criminal law and the 2008 Information and Electronic Transactions Law, which carries a minimum of five years in prison as punishment.
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