Card-cloning fraudsters jailed
Date published: 04 October 2013
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.
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