Card-cloning fraudsters jailed

TWO conmen behind a Greater Manchester cash-machine scam have been jailed — one of them for further offences committed in Oldham.

Marinel Codreanu (33) committed a series of crimes in Oldham, Shaw and Chadderton using a device fitted to cash machines to skim card details from unsuspecting victims.

He and Daniel Caldararu (36) both of Rusholme, admitted having a skimming device to be used for fraud.

Codreanu was jailed for 15 months and Caldararu for six months at Manchester Crown Court.

The Oldham incidents happened when a someone tried to use a cash machine at a Co-op Late store in Ripponden Road and the machine swallowed the card.

The card details were copied by a skimming device fitted to the cash machine by Codreanu. Cash withdrawals of £270, £170 and £40 were then made on the card, and items worth £141 bought in local stores.