Police has arrested two credit card thieves who looted cardholders to the tune of Rs 30 lakh.
Mohd Sagir alias Raju (31), resident of Bara Hindu Rao, and Govind Ram alias Rohit (33), resident of Karol Bagh, were arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police based on a specific tipoff from Lala Jagan Nath Marg, Subzi Mandi area while travelling in a car, a senior police officer said.
"One laptop, two data cards, one pen drive, five mobile phones with SIM cards, several national and international SIM cards, one scanner, several sheets containing database of customers regarding credit card details and multiple application forms of credit card of Kotak Mahindra Bank were recovered from them," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ashok Chand said.
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The duo had worked as sales agents of several banks during which they had learnt the intricacies of online financial transactions and took with them the database of information related to customers of the bank.
They applied a two-pronged tactic - one was through direct approach and the second was through tele-calling. They would pose as bank staff, and while offering credit cards to cardholders, would obtain details of their current cards.
They would then call the cellphone operator of the victim and get the SIM card blocked. After that they would call the customer care of the victim's bank and get his/her e-mail id and mobile number changed.
This would ensure that when they made online transaction on the victim's bank for transfer of money, the One Time Password (OTP) would now be sent to the fraudulent e-mail id and the mobile number of the cheats, police said.
"The cheats would now transfer the money from the victims' credit card to various online e-commerce merchants. From these accounts, the cheats would then transfer the money to the accounts opened by them in various banks through forged documents.
With the arrest of the duo, police claimed to have cracked three cases of cheating registered at Paharganj, Mandawali and Karol Bagh.
Ten other victims of credit card fraud have also lodged complaints of being cheated at police stations, EOW cyber cell, Mandir Marg, Parliament Street, Uttam Nagar, Saket, Tilak Nagar, Shahadra, Gurgaon Cyber Cell.
