Another day, another credit card fraud case: the Post reports that four men have been arrested for allegedly using fake debit and credit cards to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars out of Manhattan bank accounts. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. We'll give you a second to check your online bank statement.
Garegin Spartalyan, Aram Martirosian, Davit Kudugulyan and Hayk Dzhandzhapanyan were nabbed after one of them was caught withdrawing cash from a flagged Chase account on Thursday. Another tried to withdraw from a flagged Atlantic Bank account later that day, and the whole thing pretty much unraveled from there. Cops say each man was caught with thousands of dollars in cash and nearly a hundred fake debit and credit cards; authorities found the other half of the crew holed up in a hotel in midtown, where they had stashed $198,000 in money orders, $84,000 in cash, 200 fake cards and a magnetic strip encoding device.
They each face 380 counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument, one count of grand larceny and one count of identity theft; they'll be back in court next week, and investigators believe the men, who all hail from the West Coast, are part of a larger, nationwide counterfeit ring.
