Cops bust credit card phishing racket

July 18, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 05:54 am IST - NEW DELHI:

A joint operation conducted by the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch and the New Delhi district police led to the arrest of two persons believed to be running a credit card phishing racket. The arrests were made on Tuesday.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said the two arrested men posed as bank officials and sought debit/credit card information on the pretext of verification to cheat people and earn quick money.

The accused have been identified as Sawan Verma, a chemical engineer, and Manish Rai, a science graduate.

They came under the police scanner after they targeted a senior doctor at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and cheated him of Rs. 30,000.

“On June 21, a senior doctor of RML Hospital reported at the North Avenue police station that he received a call from an SBI official saying that his credit card had been blocked. To get the card unblocked, the complainant would have to give his card details. Thinking that the call came from a genuine official, the complainant disclosed the information,” said Mr. Yadav.

Posed as bank officials

Using the CVV and OTP that the doctor disclosed, the accused purportedly made transactions worth Rs. 30,000.

“The complainant received a message that Rs. 30,000 had been debited in four instalments. However, by the time the accused could make another transaction, the complainant got his card blocked. He also approached the local police,” said Mr. Yadav.

Looking into the case, investigators found that the amount debited from the victim’s account was transferred through “Paytm Mobile Solutions” to a bank account in a SBI branch situated in Deogarh, Jharkhand.

“When we probed further, we found that all those transactions were conducted through different IDs of “Paytm Mobile Solutions”, which were found registered on different mobile phone numbers bearing fake IDs.

The accused used “Paytm” technology to transfer money to other bank accounts and to keep themselves away from the police radar. We brought in technical surveillance and zeroed in on their location in Jharkhand,” said Mr. Yadav.

Through technical surveillance, the police traced the accused to Jharkhand. Both the accused were arrested on Tuesday after the police conducted raids there.

“During sustained interrogation, the accused revealed that they made random calls to people. Posing as bank officials, they obtained debit/credit card details. To avoid getting caught, they revealed that they got the mobile numbers, from which they called the victims, based on fake IDs,” said Mr. Yadav.

The two accused were arrested

after the police conducted raids

in Jharkhand

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