7 held by cyber cell for ‘ phishing’

◗ Accused called Jharkhand and collected vital info regarding debit & credit cards

The Delhi police cyber cell has busted a racket with the arrest of seven persons who used to dupe people by posing as bank employees and asking them their bank details.

The arrested accused were identified as Majer Singh ( 29), Varinder Singh ( 25), and Abhishek Sharma ( 25), all hailing from Punjab. The other four are Mohammad Salim ( 28), Mohammad Abdul Rahim ( 33), Mohammad Mumtaz Ansari ( 26), and Jagannath Mandal ( 45), all hailing from Jharkhand.

On July 10, 2017, a complainant alleged he had received a call in which the caller asked his card details by pretending to be an SBI employee. Soon after, about ` 50,000 was deducted from his account. Three persons were arrested in this case from Punjab and one from Jamtara in Jharkhand. They disclosed the details of their kingpin from where phishing calls used to be made to gullible people.

A crime branch team led by ACP Aditya Gautam and consisting of inspector Rajeev Kumar, Sandeep Malhotra, and SI Narendra Kumar was constituted to conduct raids at the expected hideouts of the accused in Jharkhand. Efforts made by the team along with the local police resulted into the arrest of cheats Ansari and Mandal from the Naxalite affected and highly dense forest area.

During interrogation, the accused revealed they used to make calls from Jharkhand and collected vital information regarding debit and credit cards, by impersonating as bank employees, on the pretext of renewing the cards. Thereafter they siphoned off money to their online wallets, said ACP ( Crime) Ajit K Singla.