Nagpur: MIDC police station, Hingna, Wadi and side by side are caught when residents lose Lakh Rupee through the Skimming ATM in the past two weeks.
The victims lost money because their account began to be debited due to repeated withdrawals from ATMs in Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh.
CCTV footage in the city caught ATM fraudsters using four-wheeled.
At least four people are behind the Skimming ATM, fraud in which criminals steal information from the card put into an ATM machine with a microchip and a small camera to read their passwords.
Although alert from cyber cells, the police station has not registered firs in many cases.
There are no concrete actions initiated from them to dig the gang involved in attaching skimmers or cloning devices like that at the ATM machine located in MIDC, Hingna and Wadi stretching on the outskirts of the city.
Learned that some ATM users began receiving messages on their registered cellphones about the amount debited from their account.
Residents who were confused were rushed to block their ATM cards; Many approached police stations.
Residents were told to approach cyber crime cells from the branch of the crime.
When the victims made the road to cyber cells, their complaints were tracked before being referred to the police station for Registration FIR.
Tells his trials, retired engineers of the Department of Public Works (PWD) Vilas Admane – who lost RS69,000 in fraud – said he had resigned IDR 9,000 on August 25 from the State ATM of India in the Saraswati T-Point complex.
“On August 30, someone pulled RS10,000 three times from my wife’s account, but my son, who had received a message from the bank on his cellphone, thought it was me,” Admane said.
“Criminals attract more cash on different occasions from my account using ATM information, before we can realize it and block the card,” added Admane, who did not receive a call from the Ranapratap Nagar Police Station, MIDC or Hingna.
Senior Inspector MIDC Station Umesh Bigkar said he had received information from cyber cells but the station planned to take detail from the bank as well, regarding debit transactions through ATMs, and submitted ordinary comosite com.
“There is no delay.
We are working on the details,” said big.
(With input from Shashi Rahit)