A South Australian man who used fraudulent credit card details to scam businesses out of $35,000 has been released from jail early after an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Key points:
- Credit card scams using algorithms to generate numbers are on the rise
- A man has used fake credit card details to buy goods from several SA businesses
- He has successfully appealed his sentence in the Supreme Court
David John Bagnara, 27, was convicted of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from service stations, pharmacies and a Mitre 10 store over six months.
Justice Adam Kimber in an appeal judgement said the offending was “persistent” with “a degree of sophistication”.
Bagnara used an algorithm to generate credit card numbers.
He would damage his own card and required the store to manually enter his numbers into the EFTPOS terminal.
He would then enter fraudulent credit card details in EFTPOS settings to complete transactions.
In November last year, Bagnara ordered different items over the phone from a Mitre 10 shop in Balhannah using fake credit card details.
Bagnara picked up some of the products while other goods were delivered to a storage unit.
The Mitre 10 store lost $10,371 in multiple transactions over three days.
SA businesses victims of fraud
Mazzone Jewellers was another victim of the scam, losing $7,280 in December last year.
In one occasion at a Broadview retailer, the 27-year-old…
