Bhopal: Cyber-Crime Branch on Monday claimed to have arrested three Haryana-based gang members who target ATMs using tools and after damaging the ATM, sucking Lakh Rupees.
Gang members specifically come to Bhopal ATMs and targeted to have certain machines.
They target around 100 ATMs in Bhopal from April to September and suck around RS 10 Lakh from 35-40 ATMs.
Gang targets ATMs in each team separate from three members.
The three Nabed members belong to Tim-A while there may be two or three more teams.
The defendant studied tricks to cheatly withdraw money from ATMs through YouTube videos.
They use different ATM cards to withdraw money from ATMs from certain models.
In the first transaction when the ATM issues cash, they repair their tools in the cash dispenser shutter.
Shutter tried three times to close and then jammed.
They then insert the chip inside the machine with the help of wire.
The chip covers the chip that reads the money pulled because it can’t read the amount and produce an error.
The amount is reduced from the bank account used by the defendant but when the sensor produces a transaction error behind and the number is credited back to their account because the machine takes a failed transaction.
One of their gang members lived in Bhopal for about 10 years in the past and knew the city.
He helped the defendant by resetting certain ATMs to the target.
They target ATMs in Jumerati, Nabibagh, Ayodhya Nagar, Shahpura, Itwara, Bajaria, Chhola, Nishatpura, Ashoka Park and Aishbagh.
Bank officials or cash management and ATM maintenance companies do not pay attention to a large number of fraud transactions.
They don’t produce a warning like that even though there are some transactions like that of one account.
The police have now sent notifications to banks and cash management and ATM maintenance companies.
SP (South) Sai Krishna Sota said that Premrakash Ranga’s complainant, 40, a resident of Sewwania Bag, who was an official at an ATM maintenance company, filed a complaint to the police on August 13, stating that unknown allegations were damaged by the nationalized bank ATM located at Padmanabh Nagar and suck money cheavenly.
Acting on information, the Cyber-Crime branch registered a case against the unknown unknown and initiated investigation.
SP Tota said that on the basis of the technical analysis of the police accused Shahrukh, Arif and Manish, all the residents of Sapwal Village in Palwal District Haryana.
Shahrukh knew how to adjust the tool in the cash delivery section to destroy it, so he targeted an ATM while Manish standing outside to divert other customers to close to the ATM.
Arif stood ready with bicycles outside the ATM waiting for his accomplice to escape immediately.
ASP Ankit Jaiswal said that during technical analysis the police found that the defendant used a bicycle to reach an ATM.
The bike was parked in a parking lot near the Bhopal train station.
The police oversaw bicycles with the help of Hanumanganj police for a month and when the defendant came out of the parking lot, they were detained by the police.
The defendant easily came to Bhopal from Haryana and visited various ATMs here with a bicycle.
After targeting the ATM, they fled back to Haryana by train after parking their bikes.
ASP Jaiswal said that their hands taught them tricks and practiced them with the help of YouTube videos.
They bought ATMs from bank account holders for RS 20,000 and used them for fraud transactions.
Police are looking for other gang members.
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