Hacker suspect had 6 other victims
Police said the arrested suspect in the credit card hacking case has at least seven victims, including the doctor who filed a complaint against him.
Chief Insp. Fermin Armendarez of CIDG-7 said the names of the other victims with their credit card numbers were written in a pocketbook seized from Jerwin Gurrea Minglanilla during his arrest last Wednesday in barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu City.
Armendarez advised the other victims to show up in their office and file a complaint against the suspect.
Minglanilla, 25, was charged with violation of Republic Act 8484 , a special law regulating the issuance and use of access devices, and estafa under RA 315.
In a police interrogation, the young man, who was arrested in an entrapment operation, named three persons as his cohorts in the scam.
Police said they are checking whether Minglanilla acted alone or was part of a syndicated group of credit card hackers.
He was arrested after Dr. Wilson Carvajal dela Calzada complained last Feb. 29 at the CIDG-7.
Dela Calzada said that unknown to him, his Citibank Gold Visa credit card was used to buy Air Philippines plane tickets online.
Minglanilla told police he extracts credit card numbers by surfing in the Internet.
The marked money, photocopy of SSS ID and credit card with Wilson dela Calzada’s name and photocopies of credit card application forms belonging to other persons were recovered from the suspect./correspondent chito aragon
