By RIZAL S. OBANIL
Two female suspects reportedly involved in using fake foreign credit cards to withdraw cash were arrested by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in an operation in Greenhills, San Juan.
The suspects were identified as a certain Jhoanna alias "Joan" and Marilou de Guzman.
Reports from the Anti-Fraud and Computer Crimes Division (AFCCD) said that sometime last July, the suspects were able to withdraw some P
5.2 million in cash advances from a bank in Greenhills, San Juan.
AFCCD chief Atty. Elfren Meneses said that the two suspects presented fake US passports and PRC licenses as identification to be able to withdraw money.
It was learned that the credit card accounts which the suspects were using were stolen from the United States in the first week of July as a large retailers computer system was hacked.
The hackers were able to copy several thousand card numbers including the encrypted information on the Mag Stripe.
Also, NBI agents found out that the name of the credit card holder and the issuing bank in the card was different from the real card owner and the bank that issued the card.
