Accused used to call victims impersonating as executive of Axis Bank and induce victims to redeem their credit card point which would expire soon. Accused used to send phishing link to victims i.e. link of their fake website. Mobile phones used in calling recovered. 05 fake SIM Cards recovered. Accused has cheated people to the tune of Rs 25 Lakh in last one year. Accused has been committing fraud since 2017.
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A case vide FIR No. 0076/2022, u/s 420/120B/34 IPC was registered on the complaint of Sh. Saurav Sethi R/o Paschim Vihar, Delhi. The Complainant in his complaint reported that on 18.08.2022, he received a call from mobile number 9754403164 and the lady caller impersonated herself as an Axis Bank executive who told about redemption of reward points available on his Axis Bank Credit card which are to be expiring soon. The alleged caller also sent him a link i.e. www.cardservice.in/axisbank. Later on, after filling the details i.e. personal and credit card details, he entered an OTP on the above fake webite/link. On this, he lost Rs 22341/- from his Axis credit card. Later on, complainant verified the same from Axis Bank and found that he has been cheated by fake caller and the website link was also fake.
Mr. Harendra K. Singh, IPS, DCP, Outer Distt, said, during the course of investigation, CDR and IMEI search of the alleged mobile numbers/IMEI were obtained. On analysis of CDRs, one suspected location near Sector 8, Dwarka was identified. A dedicated team comprising W/SI Rajni, SI Rakesh Kumar, HC Anil, HC Mahender and Ct. Ankit was constituted under supervision of Inspector Sandeep Panwar Station House Officer, Cyber Police Station, Outer District and under overall supervision of ACP Operation Sh. Arun Kumar Chaudhary.(SUBHEAD)
Thereafter ,raid was conducted at Sector 8, Dwarka, Delhi and one lady Ms. Surya S. @ Jennifer *Age – 25 yrs has been arrested in the said case. Accused has disclosed that in the last one year alone she had cheated people to the tune of Rs 25 Lakhs. Accused Ms. Surya S. @ Jennifer has disclosed that she has been working in fake/illegal call center and indulged in cheating from year 2017 but she has been caught for the first time.
Profile of Accused:- Accused Ms.Surya S. @ Jennifer R/o Sector 8, Dwarka, Delhi Age – 25 yrs, is only 10th Class passed out from Delhi. After this she joined a call center in Gurugram and left home. However, she became jobless in year 2017 and joined a fake call center offering fake loans. She became 50% partner in this fake call center within 4 months. She started doing independent work of sending phishing links related to SBI and Axis Bank credit cards from January 2022.
Recovery :- 03 Smart Phones, 02 Keypad phones, 05 SIM cards
Modus Operandi:- During the course of investigation, she disclosed that she impersonated herself as Bank/Credit Card company executive to the victim /credit card customers and induced the victims for redemption of reward points on their credit cards. She used to send a fake website link (created by her) to the victims on which the victims are required to fill the complete data of their Credit Cards i.e. Complete credit card number, Expiry Date, etc. This data is visible to accused on the admin panel of the fake website created by her. The accused used this data of victims credit cards for unauthorized online transactions. Further investigation of the case is being carried out to ascertain the source of Fake SIM Cards/Bank accounts and Domains on which fake websites are created.
