LARKANA: Larkana police on Monday nabbed an alleged fraudster while he was making a transaction in some other person’s account through an automated teller machine (ATM) in the Lahori Mohallah area.

SHO Sartaj Jagirani of the Market police station said that Anis Abro was nabbed after a several-day-long hunt for him. He was nominated in two cases of the same crime registered against him at this police station, he said.

Abro originally belongs to Shikarpur but he currently lives in the Muradwahan locality of Larkana, according to the police officer.

Narrating the suspect’s modus operandi, police sources said that he used to roam around ATM kiosks of various banks and offer help to anyone who seemed to be having trouble in using his/her card.

During the course of his ‘assistance’, he would note down the password used by the person and skilfully replace the card with a fake one.

Then he would use the card to withdraw money from the cheated person’s account.

The sources claimed that Abro had already cheated such people in Larkana, Khairpur, Sukkur, Dadu, Kandhkot-Kashmore and other districts to withdraw an estimated Rs12.5 million.

In Larkana alone, Abro had so far fraudulently withdrawn around Rs2.5 million, they said.

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2018