Card Skimmers Given Conditional Discharges
Appearing in Magistrates Court this morning [July 2], two young men were both given conditional discharges after both had plead guilty to a total of twenty offences involving the capturing of Bermuda credit and debit card account numbers; transferring those numbers to blank cards that had their own names on them; and then using the newly created cards to defraud the original and real card account holders of over $4,200 value by buying goods using their accounts.
Daniel Reyes-Nunez, 18 had plead guilty to offences involving over $1,700. He was given an eighteen month conditional discharge.
Yan Infante Almanzar, 20, described by Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo as the mastermind, plead guilty to his offences and was given a twenty-four month conditional discharge and ordered to make restitution of $2,534; which was to be made to the two Bermuda banks involved as both banks had already reimbursed the account-holders whose accounts had been raided.
The DPP Prosecutor told the Magistrate that considering the ages of the two, their clean records, their remorse, and their readiness to make restitution, conditional discharges or probation would be appropriate.
Defence lawyers for the two suggested that an absolute discharge or a conditional discharge would be appropriate.
The DPP Prosecutor and the lawyer for Almanzar told the Magistrate that the banks, the police, and a local security firm had consulted with Mr Almanzar and had sought his help, which had been readily given, in advising them of how they could, in future, protect themselves, the public, and their clients from this kind of hi-tech fraud.
Given a chance to speak for themselves, both men said that they had made a stupid mistake and indicated that they were unlikely to do that again.
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