Software engineer nicked for card skimming scam

A Sri Lankan national has been jailed for his part in a £725,000 chip and pin machine rigging scam which cloned the cards of petrol station customers all over the south of England. Software engineer Theogenes De Montford, a 29-year-old graduate from west London, was jailed for four-and-a-half years for his part in the campaign which modified the customer-operated handsets in order to clone the cards of unwitting users. Three other members of the gang, which...