Card skimmers had fraud factory

By Paul Thornton

A PAIR of fraudsters were caught using cloned cards to take out over £1,000 from an ATM by an off duty policeman.

Hungarian and Romanian nationals Krisztan Racz, 31, and Horea Dumitru, 22, used laptops, mobile phones, memory cards and fake bank machine fascias to clone several cards before using them to withdraw money from machines.

But their scheme was rumbled when an off duty policeman came across them emptying an ATM in Edinburgh in March.

And when officers raided their home they found a card cloning factory complete with everything needed to make fake debit cards.