translated from Spanish: Detain eight people after registering massive card cloning

It was 1,738 the cloned cards. The Superintendency of banks and financial institutions (SBIF) confirmed that it received several reports of this fraud with cards from eight emitters and one operator.
“The financial institutions identified the possible compromise point in a POS located in a service station of Gran Avenida, commune of San Miguel”, reported yesterday the regulatory body through a statement.
This Sunday, Carabineros reported that it was in that commune in which they proceeded to the arrest of eight subjects who would be involved with the episode of Saturday.
According to Radio Cooperativa, of the total, only five will pass this afternoon to a second control of detention, because they were seized material with which they would have done the fraudulent action.
Among the objects found were a large number of luxury cell phones, cash and cloned cards.
“This diligence is successfully achieved, achieving the arrest of these antisocials who committed this type of crime in different communes of the metropolitan area. What could be established is that in a Servicentro would have cloned multiple cards to different people, cards from different banks, and that is research, “explained to the radio the Deputy commissioner of the 12th Police station of San Miguel, Captain Juan Cáceres.
From banking, to date, Santander Chile stated through a public statement that identified a total of 545 cards that registered transactions at the compromise point. Of these, 51 operated with magnetic stripe and were blocked in a preventive way.
From Banco Falabella said that the total number of cards involved is 367, which were blocked in a preventive form immediately. Of these, 137 correspond to CMR Falabella cards, 226 to Banco Falabella debit cards and 4 Banco Falabella credit cards.

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