VietNamNet Bridge – On Monday, Hanoi police arrested four Chinese to clarify the behavior on charges of using computers and the Internet or digital devices to appropriate assets of others.

The arrested Chinese include a 31-year-old from the city of Tianjin, a 25-year-old man from Hunan Province, a 39-year-old man from Hubei Province and a 36-year-old man from Shandong Province.

Earlier, on April 22, the police were informed of a group of Chinese who did not use taxi services but had asked many taxi drivers to use credit cards to pay fares.

After searching the rooms of these four persons at a hotel in the Ba Dinh District, Hanoi police seized one laptop, one machine that recorded the magnetic strips of credit cards, one credit card embossing machine, one point of sale (POS) machine and 109 credit cards.

According to the initial investigation, the people had brought the devices from China to Vietnam to make forged credit cards with the information and magnetic codes they had managed to obtain from real cards. They then combined with some taxi drivers to use the taxis’ POS devices to levy charges against the accounts of those cards that had been copied.

Until they were arrested, the four Chinese had conducted 95 transactions and stolen over VND54 million ($2,500).

Le Ha