Five men were arrested on charge of cheating people by issuing fake credit cards here recently. The arrest of the men was facilitated by staff members of mobile showroom on CMH Road by alerting the police.
According to the police the arrested persons are Waseem Pasha, Imran Khan, Pashanth Dashwanth Rane, Rahul Pradeep Dulera and Manoj Kumar.
Waseem Pasha and Imran Khan had gone to the mobile showroom on CMH Road to buy a mobile phone. The duo started pulling out several credit cards to swipe after the transaction on the first card was declined, thus raising suspicion among the staff members, who asked them to produce an ID proof. Then the store employees took back the phone and informed the Indiranagar police, but the duo escaped. The police, however, recovered the CCTV footage and alerted other shopkeepers. When the duo went to another mobile shop in Indiranagar to buy a phone, they were arrested. On being questioned, the duo revealed the names of their three associates who also were arrested later.
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The police said Manoj Kumar is wanted in similar cases in Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai. He purchased blank credit cards of Citi Bank, ICICI, HDFC, Standard Charted and Axis bank, from Malaysia and later purchased credit card data of various bank accounts online before embossing the data onto the blank cards with the help of electromagnetic tapes.
After making fake cards, Manoj Kumar gave them to his associates, who purchased only high-end phones and later sold them in used phone market in Chennai at a lower price, said Indira Nagar Sub-Inspector Dhananjay.