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Indonesian man spends vacation in jail
It's a credit card scheme spanning three continents with the alleged criminal being caught on Guam. It started as a simple email transaction but for one Balinese man who vacationed on Guam for the sole purpose of taking money that wasn't his, all he got was a one way ticket to jail.
It started with email correspondence between drguru08@yahoo.co.uk and guru_a9@yahoo.co.uk. For just under $400 Natarajan Gurumoorthy purchased 60 credit cards over the internet. On August 8 Gurumoorthy hopped on a flight from Bali to spend two weeks on Guam.
Two days before he was set to depart back to Bali, a Fed Ex package was delivered to his room at the Harmon Loop Hotel. What he didn't know at the time was that federal authorities had intercepted his package addressed to a Dr. Ravi. Inside they found 60 counterfeit credit cards that lacked security features, a laptop computer, and an encoder with various power cord adapters.
U.S. Secret Service agents did research on the credit card accounts and found prospective victim banks located in the United Kingdom. Gurumoorthy, thinking his plan had worked, then took the cards and was seen making numerous attempts to withdraw cash from the accounts at the nearby banks from his motel.
According to the federal complaint, when the feds picked him up, he admitted that he intended to commit fraud by using the counterfeit cards to obtain cash while visiting Guam. He also told authorities he intended to re–encode the counterfeit credit card stock with the newly acquired numbers and attempt to exploit the information by obtaining cash from various bank atm's on island.
While he was set to leave island on Sunday, Gurumoorthy now faces federal charges awaiting a formal indictment. A preliminary examination is scheduled for August 28 in the District Court.
Until that court date, he remains behind bars in the custody of the U.S. Marshals.
Now out $400 and the cost of a plane ticket with a foiled plan that he had hoped would make him rich, he remains behind bars in the custody of the U.S. Marshals.
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