The city police today arrested three persons, including two from Delhi, who allegedly duped people by collecting their credit and debit card details using a fake Delhi-based "customer care centre".
The accused have been identified as Vansh Arora and Ashish Mehta from Delhi and Ravi Sharma from Chandigarh.
Police said the three were running a fake "customer care center" in Delhi from where they used to call people across the country and collect their details on the pretext of upgrading or blocking their debit or credit cards.
In November last year, Chandigarh-based Harjeet Singh had alleged he was duped of Rs 23,580 after he received a call from a "customer care center of ICICI bank".
The caller collected his details on the pretext of blocking his credit card. Later he found his card was used on different sites including Paytm.Com, mobikwik.Com, Payu.Com, Oxigen.Com by creating "false money wallets".
Police said they have recovered fake SIM cards, walky-talky set, used for pitching/calling and details of card holders from the accused.
Giving detail on modus operandi of the accused, police said they used to make calls to card holders on the pretext to providing them double PIN security, or issuing them new card.
They would seek details like date of birth of the card holder, card's expiry date, CVV number and swipe it online to transfer the money in fake wallets and further in their bank accounts, they said.
