Two men involved in credit card phishing have been arrested by the Delhi Police from Deogarh in Jharkhand.
They used to cheat people by gathering details about their credit/ATM/debit cards posing as bank officials on the pretext of card verification. They used ‘Paytm Mobile Solutions’ to transfer the amount swindled in other bank account in Jharkhand, the police said.
The two have been identified as Sawan Verma (25) and Manish Rai (26), both residents of Deogarh.
The incident came to light on June 21 when Dr Dinesh Kumar, a senior doctor at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital filed a complaint at North Avenue police station alleging that he had received phone calls from a person claiming to be from State Bank of India (SBI).
The caller informed Dr Kumar that his credit card had been blocked due to some reasons. In the pretext of unblocking his credit card, the caller obtained from him details of his credit card.
After the call, Dr Kumar received a message from his mobile phone service provider that a new SIM card would be sent as requested by him and current SIM was to be blocked with immediate effect. Dr Kumar realized something fishy was taking place and he immediately called up his bank.
By the time he could get access to the bank executive through bank IVR (Instant Voice Response) system, the culprits had withdrawn Rs 30,000 in four installments from his account. Fifth withdrawal, however, was blocked by the bank, the police said.
Keeping in view the latest trend of cheating and sensitivity of the case, a team of Crime Branch was formed.
The team started investigation of the case and it was revealed that the amount from the victim’s account was transferred through “Paytm Mobile Solutions” to an SBI bank account at a SBI branch situated at Deogarh, Jharkhand.
After developing concrete information regarding whereabouts of accused persons, a joint raiding party consisting of police officers from Crime Branch and North Avenue police station conducted raids in Jharkhand and arrested Sawan Verma and Manish Rai from Deogarh on July 12.
During their interrogation, the accused revealed that they used to make random phone calls to different mobile phone numbers and would obtain details of the Credit/ATM/Debit cards of victims posing as bank officials. They used SIM cards obtained on fake IDs to make such calls. After obtaining the card details of the victims, the accused would make fraudulent transactions from the account of the victim.
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