Four gangs nabbed for creating fake ID proofs
Cyberabad Cybercrime Wing has nabbed four gangs who had been creating fake identity proofs like PAN card and voter Id card by using passport-sized photographs downloaded from websites, to illegally obtain credit cards of different banks. They also created fake payslips of MNCs. One of the fake proofs included downloading a picture of a corporator and misusing it. Through the fake ID proofs, they managed to hoodwink the banks and cheat them of several crores of rupees.
Of the four gangs nabbed, one had a Deputy Paramedical Officer (Gazetted rank) working in the Medical and Health Department of AP Government, who had attested the fake documents created by the other members of the gang. Of the 16 others arrested, there were sales executives of different banks who assisted in the preparation of fake identity proofs to obtain credit cards. All together the four gangs have duped banks and a private finance firm to the tune of `2,32,81,276.
A techie approached the cops stating that his KYC details had been misused for obtaining a credit card, using which a transaction of `88,654 was made. Inquiries revealed that the kingpin P. Shivaram Prasad conspired with other suspects, prepared fake payslips of MNCs, obtained PAN Cards and other identity proofs. All this was managed by A. Hemarama Prasad who was a sales executive in a private bank for tele and physical verification of documents.
Later they got the fake documents attested by M Moshe, the Deputy Paramedical Officer for obtaining the credit cards and also to file IT returns. Two members of the gang obtained credit cards in their own names. Using 33 SBI credit cards, they cheated to a tune of `36,83,509, while Sivaram alone cheated Bajaj Finance by taking electronic articles appliances from electronic stores to the tune of `37,89,255 using fake PAN Cards and ID proofs. In the same manner, another three-member gang obtained an SBI credit card using the KYC details of BN Reddy Nagar Corporator Ms M Laxmi Prasanna and cheated to the tune of `1.04 lakh.
In another similar case, a four-member gang obtained 17 SBI cards using fake documents and cheated the bank to the tune of `1,45,50,512. The credit cards were obtained in the name of different firms namely SR Traders, Aditya Traders and VK Enterprises, on whose names current accounts were in operation in the banks.
In the fourth case, two suspects obtained three SBI credit cards and cheated the bank to the tune of ` 6,45,111. The 16 suspects were arrested, but three are absconding.