The south-east district police have busted a gang of alleged cheats who had a database of nearly one crore bank accounts, and targeted many by transferring their money in a distributed manner to various online merchants and mobile wallets, only to redeem it later. So far, a member of the gang and the alleged supplier of data have been arrested.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-East) Romil Baaniya said the matter came to light when Greater Kailash resident Shushil Chandra Rastogi approached them with a complaint. According to Mr. Rastogi, he received a call from someone who told him that his credit card had been blocked and if he wants to reactivate it, some details are required.
₹1,46,000 transferred
“Upon sharing the details, he found that ₹1,46,000 was transferred to some online merchants including PayU, Paytm, Olacabs, Mobikwik, RPSL, MMPL, TTSL, Vodafone bill pay,” said Mr. Baaniya .
The police later tracked down Ashish Kumar Jha. “He said he had worked with banks and financial institutions as a sales executive. In 2013, he started telecalling for selling health insurance. For this, he used to purchase data from data providers and this gave him the idea to indulge in credit card cheating,” said Mr. Baaniya.
