An owner of a travel agency in southeast Edmonton travel agency is being charged for using credit card data to fraudulently take $50,000 from his customers. He used the stored credit card data to commit these forgeries.

He is Gurmeet Singh Mankoo and he is the owner of a travel agency named Payless Travels. He committed these frauds between late 2009 and early 2010.

The modus operandi of Mankoo was using copies of customers' credit cards and drivers' licenses. He conducted up to 15 to 20 fraud transactions per card before the card reached its credit limit. This was revealed by southeast division Detective Mohinder Banga.

He used a customer's credit card for $20,000 in unauthorized spending. It took nearly three months for people to realize these frauds which they discovered after checking their credit card statements.

He also these credit cards to pay for trips for other customers who paid cash and then pocketed the cash himself. He was running Payless Travel for four years from a mall at 23rd Avenue and 66th Street. The travel agency was closed after it was found that it was responsible for these frauds.

It is confirmed that 13 people were defrauded and they are also investigating seven more people. A total of $50,000 was obtained fraudulently with these credit cards.