Gorakhpur: Police Gorakhpur, on Friday, break the gang involved in sucking money from bank bank accounts by cloning their fingerprints.
Polyoce catches 11 gang members from near the night nagar tiraha near Pancar and recover rs 9.10,000 cash, car and bicycle, finger print clones, finger scanners, machines used in making finger prints cloning, 53 SIM cards, checking books, dongles, ATM cards, laptops, pen drives, and register containing AADHAR card data, etc., police said.
Taking serious notes about the increasing case of cyber fraud in this district, SSP Gorakhpur exerted a branch of crime, cyber cells, SWAT team and SOG team.
Acting on the tip-off, the police won the day of Tiraha and stopped some people to come up with a car and motorcycle.
While checking the police recovered Rs 9,10,000 in cash, ATM cards, cellphones, SIMs, finger print clones, bank savings books, check books etc.
from their ownership, police said.
They told the police that they would meet with other members in Sai Communication in the Panchayat Road district.
The police arrested three people from Sai’s communication and restored the fingerprint and computer clon-making machines, police said.
SSP Gorakhpur Dinesh Kumar P said that 11 defendants were arrested at 419 (penalty for cheating with personation), 420 (cheating and inducing property delivery), 467 (security forgery, will, etc.), 474 (know documents to be forged and intend To use it as genuine), 120 B (party to a criminal conspiracy), 411 (dishonest accept the stolen property) IPC and 66 (computer-related violations), 66C (cheat or dishonestly utilize electronic signatures, passwords or other unique identification features of others), 66D (communication device or cheating computer resources with personality) it acts.
During their interrogation revealed that some members were used to contact Nepalese and Delhi people and help them open a bank account.
Then they use their bank details such as bank passbooks, ATM cards, passwords used user ID, KYC details and use it to make customer service points (CSP) with the help of their KYC videos.
Through the various sources they use to make a finger prints clone with the help of ATM card numbers and thumb finger prints from this account holder.
Then they use to transfer money from other bank accounts that are linked to CSP to the Thaye account having details and then withdraw money through the ATM, the SSP said.
The arrest accusations were identified as Raghvendra Mishra from Daudpur in Gorakhpur, Sonu Kumar Paswan from Chilual, Mukesh Kumar and Vikas aka Vicky from Sahjanwa, Syed Jawed Ali from Jafra Bazar, Shashank Pandey of Badhalganj, Dipendra Thapa, Sagar Jaiswal from Nautans Living in New Delhi , Rahul Rana from Nautans who lived in New Delhi, Amit Kannuujia from Tiwaripur and Ashish Pathak of Uruwa Bazar at Gorakhpur.
Police Bust Fingerprint Cloning Gang, 11 Arrested at Gorakhpur
