londonmore than half of people living in a village in worcestershire have become victims of international credit card fraud with money being withdrawn from their accounts in india sri lanka denmark and the dominican republic this is the latest in a series of such complaints in which consumers across britain have found that money has been withdrawn from the accounts from various locations including mumbai and chennai in india wychbold a sleepy village in worcestershire has 700 homes of whom 400 have had money withdrawn from their accounts abroad the local police believe their cards have been closed and details emailed to locations abroad from where they were used to withdraw money ranging from 50 pounds to 1000 pounds in may a journalist for the daily echo at bournemouth discovered that money was withdrawn from his bank account in chennai while nearly 500 others in the area suffered the same fate british security officials have been grappling with cardcloning by which card details are surreptitiously recorded during transactions at petrol pumps and supermarkets and emailed across the globe for illegal withdrawals from atm machines garages and petrol pumps have been the most vulnerable to such scams teresa tutin 50 a homecare assistant in wychbold said apparently ive bought something at a shop in liverpool and worst of all apparently ive used a cashpoint in india recentlyi can tell you categorically that i havent done either of those things so there is clearly something very sinister going on here im absolutely livid about this and so is everyone else in the village its an absolute disgrace another victim is shaun colley whose visa debit card details were used to withdraw 200 pounds in germany he said i thought id been unlucky but everyone i spoke to in the village had suffered the same the police told me 400 people in wychbold alone have been targeted the local police recently took items from a local garage for examination villagers have depended on a local petrol station managed by one khalid khan for years khan said he was doing all he could to help the police investigation he said i have been in this business for 18 years and i have been in wychbold for seven of them and i have never experienced a problem like this before im so upset about what has happened to all our customers and i can assure them that it has nothing to do with us and we will do everything we can to help catch the people involved i just dont know what has happened or what went wrong but im going to do everything i can to help detective sergeant neil austin who is investigating the case said we have had a number of further reports from members of the public who have found discrepancies with their bank accounts these callers have reported activity within their accounts originating from various locations internationally officers are in the process of contacting each card holder that has reported