Surat: City authorities busted a well-organized nationally cyber fraud racket at which power bills worth $ 3.67 crore earned cash by many clients of Torrent Power and state-run Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (DGVCL) were usurped and the invoice amount paid with credit cards of Mumbai-headquartered RBL Bank clients.
One of those detained include a tele-calling racketeer in Jamtara of Jharkhand that is notorious for these cyber property intrusion.
The racket was divided by Katargam police together using all the cyber-crime police channel.
Police detained Virbhadrasinh Jhala (29), Mehul Lakadiya (28), Yash Bhuptani (24), Manish Bhuva (34), Milan Chovatiya (34) and Jitendra alias Rahul Mandal.
Jhala is out of Bhavnagar and Mandal is out of Jamtara while others detained are inhabitants of this Surat city.
Police investigation revealed that Bhuva functioned with representatives who supplied service of power invoice payment to several small business establishments and people.
He was able to get copies of energy invoices and money.
Rather than paying the invoice, Bhuva delivered the invoice duplicates to Chovatiya and Bhuptani who shipped to Jhala over WhatsApp and Telegram.
Jhala subsequently sent the invoice copies to Mandal.
After getting the invoices, Mandal full the particulars for internet payment via any bill payment system.
Mandal or his partners then made calls for RBL Bank credit card holders and then gathered the card holder’s details such as card number and birthdate.
“Punching the details for repayment, Mandal created OTP for repayment.
The OTP went into the card holder’s documented cellphone that Mandal gathered and entered to finish the payment,” explained a police officer.
After the bills have been paid, Jitendra delivered the screenshot of payment on Virbhadrasinh.
After Virbhadrasinh confirmed them, Mehul compensated Jitendra his talk by the money collected from the true power customers.
“The racket had been so well planned which area work was completed in Gujarat and also the cyber fraud has been implemented from Jamtara.
It could have not been discovered but because of in depth investigation in first stage police violated up it,” said city police commissioner Ajay Tomar.
The accused had been booked under Indian Penal Code for criminal breach of trust, cheating and segments of this Information Technology Act.
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