On Saturday morning S. Jagan (35), a businessman of Vedapatty near Vadavalli, got a message that he made a purchase for 274.98 Canadian Dollars using his international credit card. He continued driving his car – for a couple of minutes – before he received three more alerts for transactions using the same credit card for more than 1,000 US $.
These were transactions for US $ 456.95 and $ 639.96, respectively. While another deduction for 8.75 US $ was made it was reversed immediately, followed by the last transaction for one US $. He immediately called the bank and asked them to put his card on hold.
On the whole, unidentified persons had used his credit card for purchasing clothes and a flight ticket for about Rs. 85,000.
Shortly after his card was put on hold, he received alerts that attempts were made to make purchases in ‘Russian rubble’ and ‘Ukrainian hryvnia’.
Mr. Jagan said that he last made use of the card two days before his card was misused. Based on a complaint lodged by him, the Vadavalli Police (attached to the Coimbatore District Police) registered a case on Sunday.
The police are trying to identify the persons involved in it and how they got access to the credit card details of the victim and made use of it.
