The JadoPado ninjas: Agent Karlo, 007 Gulneet, Spy Shabbir, ^OK the Boss and J, our brave but very nervous transporter.

Perpetrators: 2 thin, lanky, not-so-bright fraudsters.

The lawmen: Plain clothed CID folks

Victim: Poor cardholder.

Sting Operation Spot 1: A metro station

Sting Operation Spot 2: Roadside in Hor al Anz

How it all started…

Before I launch into a play by play of the entire saga. Let’s set the scene a bit.

It was Thursday, orders were streaming in and we were happy since it was turning out to be such a busy day. Then Spy Shabbir popped up on our internal chat and said: ‘Houston, we might have a problem’.

The problem turned out to be two orders placed that day with different names and different addresses but the same phone number. A closer look at the two orders and we got even more suspicious. One look at the number of payment attempts and the different cards used and there was no question about it anymore. We were dealing with our first case of fraud.

Fast forward to Friday morning and the guy whose credit card had been used to make the transactions and his bank both got in touch. We assured them that they had our full co-operation and that we would reimburse all the funds.

By this time we were itching to jump in and do something about it. We contacted the lovely folks at the CID and set up a sting operation. We were going to catch the fraudsters in the act!

The Super Sleuthing JadoPado Ninjas

Sunday morning, ^OK the boss picks up Agent Shabbir, Agent Karlo and 007 Gulneet and they all rendezvous to the first delivery spot with CID in tow.

^OK decides to stay in the car in case Fraudster 1 made a run for it (and because he's the Boss). The rest of the ninjas headed into the metro station with the lawmen. So while J, our transporter called Fraudster 1 to let him know that he’d reached the location and 007 Gulneet coordinated with the CID, our agents decide to show their super sleuthing skills – by forgetting they were on the mission in the first place!

Spy Shabbir met a long time friend upon entering the Metro and promptly got so absorbed in the conversation that he forgot about the mission. Agent Karlo was very vigilant – until he had to go to the loo. And since Murphy’s Law states that anything exciting about to happen will happen when you’re in the loo, Agent Karlo missed all the action. As did Spy Shabbir.

When questioned about their lack of focus, Spy Shabbir was very convincing when he said that they were under training.

The cliffhanger…

So what happened with Fraudster 1? Did he realize he was being observed and make a run for it or did the (distracted) JadoPado Ninjas and the CID catch him?

Find out more in our next installment of The Tale of JadoPado Ninjas and the Fraudsters.

Stay tuned!