(Aljazeera TV report) Secure Banking with IrisGuard technology

Police have urged the public to be cautious when using automated teller machines (ATMs), after 12 foreigners were arrested this week for committing ATM fraud. The thieves, who are believed to have been operating in the country for about two weeks, installed card skimmers and small cameras on ATMs around Amman, using these devices to collect customers bank card information and withdraw money from their accounts. No figures were available on the amount of stolen money. The 12 are believed to be part of a network of ATM thieves working in several countries in the region, said Public Security Department Spokesperson Major Mohammad Khatib. The gangs devices made it possible to read bank cards magnetic strips and record personal identification numbers (PINs) entered by bank clients, Khatib told The Jordan Times over the phone on Thursday. The police raided the homes of the gang members, arrested them and seized their laptops, along with numerous fake bank cards on which they stored the stolen data and which they used to make withdrawals or purchases. One of the 12 was arrested while in possession of about 40 fake cards, Khatib told The Jordan Times