Woman busted in Bekasi for credit card fraud

Woman busted in Bekasi for credit card fraud

JAKARTA (JP): Bekasi police nabbed a North Jakarta woman
Sunday evening for allegedly using a stolen credit card.

The suspect, identified as Isti Rahayu S., 22, a resident of
Semper Barat, Cilincing district, North Jakarta, was arrested by
Bekasi police at the "Hero" supermarket at around 8 p.m.

"She came to the supermarket with the children of a relative,"
Lt. Col. Latief Rabar, spokesman for the city police, said
yesterday.

After purchasing two articles of children's clothing and some
baby goods in the basement, she went upstairs to buy three denim
trousers, five T-shirts, a "JJ" shirt at the "Hammer" store.

She then paid for the goods with a credit card. However, the
cashier discovered that the card had been blocked by the bank at
the request of the owner.

"The card was reported missing by the owner on Friday," said
Latief.

The cashier then called Bekasi police who soon came to arrest
the suspect.

Later, during the interrogation, police found several other
bank cards in the wallet of the suspect, including three Citibank
credit cards, one Lippo credit card, one Exim credit card, one
Bank Bali credit card and one ATM Lippo card--all of which are
believed to have been stolen.

"All the bank cards are registered under different female
names, none which are hers," Latief added.

According to Latief, the woman told her interrogators that she
had not stolen the cards, but had simply found them on the
street.

However, police believe that the suspect had obtained the
cards illegally and therefore put her into custody in the Pondok
Bambu district pending further investigation. (jsk)