A group of clients from the National Bank suffered a silent crime: they lost funds from their saving accounts through the method known as “skimming” or data cloning.
This scam mechanism consists of copying data and other information from the magnetic strip of a credit or debit card.
Viviana White, a bank customer, was a victim: she tried to withdraw money from her saving account, but the ATM retained her card. When she requested it, she realized that, a day before, someone had taken away an important amount of money from her account.
Two of her co-workers were affected by the same situation.
CRHoy.com consulted the bank on this and other incidents.
As a result, David Hernández, Director of National Bank Security, stated that the bank was not going to refer to the specific cases or specific places where the crimes would have occurred, in order not to hinder the investigation conducted by the authorities.
However, he admitted that the entity has not escaped from criminals
The official stated that the cases of card fraud at ATMs are a global phenomenon that has intensified and migrated from South America to Central America.
Each client’s case will be investigated in order to determine how the crime occurred.