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An Indian born computer specialist who was the mastermind behind the britain's biggest fake credit card racket has been jailed for six years.Anup patel and his accomplices had amassed nearly 2 million pounds by making counterfelt credit cards and using them in several countries in Asia and Europe.Police believe they would have cheated people of 16 million pounds by now had they not been caught.A computer sciences Graduate from Kingston university ,Patel stole orginal credit card numbers and PIN and engraved them on counterfeit cards.The fake cards were transported by one of his accomplices,Anthony Thomas to countires in Asia like Thailand and Eastern Europe where the chip and PIN security system is not in use.Local members of the gang withdrew money using those crads by faking signatures of the orginal card holders.The operation was busted in oct 2006 when the police acting on an Intelligence tip off raided Patel's rented office premises in south london.Patel gave himself up to the police after learning that his accomplices has been arrested.The times has revealed that patel compared himself to a computer thief featuring in an English film.He thought he ws like Frank Abnagale,the con artist played by leonardo dicaprio in Catch me if you can.Apparently,patel once called detective sergeant simon Rusen who was hunting him after the bust and told him that the policeman was like the FBI agent played by tom hanks in the film."catch me if you can" he said in his two minute conversation with the police officer.