bengaluru conmen posing as computer sciences corporation csc employees possibly aided by the companys staff pulled off a rs12crore credit card fraud in april 2017 while the firm was in the final stages of its merger with hewlettpackardamerican express banking corp in a complaint lodged last week with koramangala police said it had processed a request purportedly from csc for 28 corporate credit cards and 10 consumer credit cards for its employeesamex named 38 people in its complaint in which it said it had processed the request early in april 2017 after confirming with csc that the individuals the cards were mentioned in the request were indeed employees of the company an investigating officer told toi on monday it dispatched the cards to the csc office in electronic citythe cards were received by a company official and were used between march and june 2018 he saidthe suspects he said perpetrated the crime even as hp was completing the spinoff of its enterprise services business and its subsequent merger with csc to form dxc technology on april 3 2017con timed with dealbecause of the facts of the case we suspect that it was an inside job he officer said and it appears that they took advantage of the fact that senior csc executives were busy pushing through the deal with hp and would not have had the time to scrutinise documents such as the amex request for confirmation that the card applicants were employeesamex officials discovered the fraud when all 38 cardholders failed to pay bills totalling rs 12660630 even a year after making purchases and transfersduring physical background checks bank staff discovered that the person who received the cards and the cardholders were not csc employees the officer saidacting on a complaint by abraham david the legal representative of american express banking corp police registered criminal case against 38 people 28 for fraudulently possessing and using corporate credit cards and 10 for the same offence with consumer credit cardsthey booked the offenders whose identities police are yet to determine under various sections of the ipc including 420 cheating and 120b criminal conspiracysuspects used same picsamex opened an inquiry by a team of officials and visited the residences of all 38 cardholders the complaint said we discovered that none of the cardholders were employees of csc it saidthe amex team also found that five of the suspects had in their applications for the cards used the same photographs the police complaint said the bank also suspected that some of its employees were involved in the crimekoramangala police said they would soon question the suspectswe have asked amex to furnish information about the 38 cardholders and copies of their internal inquiry the officer said