Customs agents arrested two Chinese nationals for attempting to smuggle hundreds of skimming devices at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Arrested were Gong Yongjie and Wang Ji, both from Guangzhou, China who arrived at the Naia 1 onboard China Southern flight. They were stopped by customs agents after their baggage revealed images of irregularities in the X-ray machines.
“Their baggage was immediately examined by the customs examiner in the presence of other customs-Naia agents and they found 187 pieces of brand new One Time Password Cards (OTP) and 153 pieces of used ATM, debit cards and new sim cards,” Maj. Jaybee Raul Cometa, head of X-ray Inspection Project, said.
OTP cards are used as a cloning device to access data in the ATM cards and the generated passwords will be sent to the sim cards which will initiate the transfer of funds.