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The Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested 6 foreigners for using fake credit cards.

2 of them, 22-year-old Saravanan Navanithan and 29-year-old Shankaran Shamugam, were caught when using 3 credit cards to buy a VND18 million tablet at a computer shop on Ton That Tung Street in District 1 on Friday.

After they had to use the 3rd credit card since the first two were found to have errors, the shop employees immediately reported to the card issuer, the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam (Agribank).

As the information on the card was found to be different from Agribank’s database, the bank asked the shop to hold the payment until the police came.

The police then found out that the 2 foreigners had 13 other cards, all of which was fake.

The police went on to discover 4 other members of the same ring and found 20 other fake credit cards in their hotel rooms in District 1 and 5.

Source: TT