Gurgaon: Faridabad police destroyed a group of cyber fraudsters and arrested four suspects to cheat several people throughout the country by posing as a bank representative and offered a vacation package to credit card holders.
The police have found four bank accounts used by criminals, with transactions of more than Rs 65 lakh in the past six months.
Gang, according to the police, bought details of contact card holders from the application, Justdial, and called them through it.
Posing as a bank representative, the caller first told the target about the vacation package under their credit card scheme.
The caller then uses their card number, CVV and expirations, even deceiving them to share OTPS and make transactions from their cards into their account.
“Usually, people fall in such traps because they believe that the call comes from bank customer service executives,” said Nitish Agrawal, DCP, Faridabad.
Police recover 17 cellphones, 18 SIMs, computers and printers used to make fake documents, from the defendant.
A casts were also registered at the Cyber Faridabad police station at Manoj Kumar’s complaint, a resident of Jawahar Colonies, who lost Rs 98,976 to fraudsters.
The police identified the man who was arrested as Uttam Singh, Tushar, Muhamad Mubin and Maj Ahmad.
Uttam and Tushar come from New Delhi; Mubin and Ahmad come from up.
Police said that the gang committed 55 cases of fraud-17 in Delhi-NCR, 15 above, nine in Telangana, five in Haryana, three in Maharashtra, two in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, respectively .
In Haryana, Jind, Sirsa and Faridabad have one case and Karnal, two.
“We must know the details of the case after scanning the cellphone recovered from the defendant,” said Inspector to Kumar, Sho, Faridabad, Faridabad.
Earlier this month, the Faridabad police have solved a group of cyber fraudsters, who used to call the target through the application and pretend to be a SBI representative to cheat them on behalf of their credit card.
The police said that the modus operandi from the two gangs was similar.
Gang cheats many people with holiday package offers; Four is captured
