NEW DELHI: If your credit/debit card gets stolen or snatched, you first get it blocked. But, it turns out that block your card doesn't necessarily mean that the money in your account is safe.

Stolen debit and credit cards are being sold in Delhi-NCR and people are ready to pay 100 to 150 rupees for each card. But why?

In fact, these cards are being used to dupe people entering ATM rooms. A member of such gang has been arrested from Baba Haridas Nagar of in Delhi.

The arrested man used to purchase stolen cards from thieves and ragmen for 100 to 150 rupees per card. After getting these cards he managed to get people's pin number on the pretext of helping them. While trying to 'help' them use the ATM, he would replace the user's card with a blocked card.

According to the information, the price tag for different banks' ATMs differ. PNB and SBI ATMs were costly and not easily available.

DCP (Dwarka), Anto Alphonse told that the arrested person, Balbir Singh, had 22 cards and they have also recovered Rs 35,500 rupees too have been recovered from him.

Police had received a complaint from a woman on 11th August. She told that when she went to use one

ATM, a man was standing there. She asked him to go out but he kept standing there and saw her entering pin. When she returned home she found that Rs 40,000 were deducted from her account. She got a message again that a total of Rs 1,15,000 have been withdrawn from her account.

Police started a probe and the ATM security guard too was interrogated. On 4th October the guard informed police about few suspects roaming around the ATM. Police reached the spot and talked to the suspects. During this Balbir Singh told many secrets.

He told about his close relative Rakesh, who is from Hisar. Both were involved in ATM frauds.