Cyber fraud trio lands in police net

ATM TRICK The three called over 3000 people posing as bank employees; money used to buy electronic gadgets

JAIPUR: The Jaipur police have arrested three men involved in casesofcyberfraud.Thetrio has made calls to more than 3,000 people.

The three, in their early twenties, would get hold of the victims’ bank details and then debit large sums of money from the accounts, police said.

The trio has made calls to more than 3,000 people.

According to the police, around 200 such cases were registered in police stations in the Jaipur commissionerate.

“After receiving regular complaints of such fraud, we decided to analyse more than 200 phone numbers from where the calls were made,” said deputy commissioner of police (crime) Vikas Pathak. The accused would select a

from states other than their home state

Call those people up and introduce themselves as

Tell them that their were about to be blocked, unless they give their bank details

The fraudsters would then

“In most such cases, the registration details didn’t reveal much. We had to explore other methods of investigation with the help of a technical team.”

He said four teams were sent to Jharkhand and Kolkata and the three accused—identified as Sagar Das (22), Vicky Das (22) enter the ATM card details, including the CVV number, on online shopping portals

The fraudsters would order items they want to buy and ask the victim for the sent to their phone by the payment gateway

They would then complete the transaction before disconnecting the phone, often with a parting

from Jamtara in Jharkhand and Satyam Roy (20) from Kolkata— were arrested.

“We arrested the accused for the two cases but it is likely that during investigation more such instances will come up. As they made thousands of calls in different states, it is possible that the final amount could be in crores,” said Pathak.

“The accused would mostly call people from outside the state and introduce themselves as bank employees.

“They would then tell the victims that their ATM card would soon get blocked and to prevent it they had to give their bank account details. After the victim gave the details they would then debit money from the account,” he said.

The police said the accused were so confident that they would verbally abuse the victims in Hindi before disconnecting the calls.

Additional commissioner of police (crime) Prafulla Kumar said the accused have revealed that they used the stolen money to splurge on expensive mobiles and electronic gadgets such as tablets and laptops.

“The accused led a lavish lifestyle. After buying electronic gadgets with the stolen money, they would sell them online. Three mobile phones have been recovered from Satyam Roy and five phones from Sagar Das and Vicky Das,” he said.

Two separate cases were filed in Jyoti Nagar and Kotwali police stations in the city about thefrauds.

The amounts debited were ₹43,391 and ₹55,000. The accused have been arrested.

The police said all three accused had duped people from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab.

“We are also probing the possible involvement of mobile retailers in helping the fraudsters procure SIM cards used for the crime,” said Kumar.