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Police Station – Cyber Crime of Chandigarh Police has busted a fake call center and achieved major success with the arrest of 02 accused in the case of cheating on the pretext to activate and increase limit of credit card. For this purpose Sh. Ketan Bansal, Superintendent of Police, Cyber Crime under the supervision formed a special team of PS – Cyber Crime under the close guidance of Sh. Mridul, IPS, Addl. Superintendent of Police, Cyber Crime & IT, headed by Sh. Ranjit Singh, SHO, PS- Cyber Crime, in Case FIR No. FIR 09 dated 01.02.2023 U/S 419 ,420, 120B IPC PS- Cyber Crime, Chandigarh to apprehend the criminals involved in this crime.
The accused identified as Amit Kumar S/o Charanjit Lal R/o Gali No. 01 Ram Chander market, Hargovind Enclave, Chhattarpur, Delhi (West), Age- 40 Yrs.qualification – Higher secondary) and Ms. Anjali D/o Sh. Rajender Kumar r/o Gali No. 05, Pandav Raod, Vishwas Nagar, Shahdara, Delhi, Age-26 Years,(Graduate)
The above case was registered on the complaint of Sh. Vishal Nagra R/o CL Agarwal DAV School Sector 07 Chandigarh in which he stated that he applied for Axis Bank Credit card and the same was issued to him and remained inactive. He received a call from number +18604195555 for activation of credit card and the caller posed himself from Axis Bank credit card customer care.
The caller asked him that if the card was not activated, it will be cancelled and further asked for details of his Axis Bank Credit card. Further he again received call for activation and increase the limit of credit card from Rs. 150000/- to Rs. 250000/-. In this way, the fraudsters asked for his credit card details many times and succeeded to make fraud transaction of Rs. 49562/-, Rs. 50387.6/-, Rs. 49760/- (Total 1.5 Lacs approx.).(SUBHEAD)
During the investigation, it was found that the fraud transactions were made through merchant Nobroker and Cred and details from Nobroker and Cred was taken and found that the fraud amount was credited into the IDFC bank which was found in the name of Mr. Rasal Husain C/o Mrs. Zamila R/o J-1/407 Top DDA Flat South Delhi.
Further the alleged mobile number linked with above IDFC Bank account was found in the name of Atabul SK C/o Dulal SK R/o Chakajafarabad, Nabagram, Murshibabad (WB).
The said mobile number was found of Vodafone West Bengal circle and was being used Delhi NCR Area. Further a raid by ASI Balwan Singh No. 1734/CHG, HC Vikas No. 679/CP, Ct. Vikas No. 4704, Ct. Paramjit Singh 4925/CP, Ct. Sachin No. 6166/CP & L/C Reena No. 592/CP, was conducted in Delhi and following the location of alleged mobile number, the accused Amit Kumar S/o Charanjit Lal R/o Gali No. 01 Ram Chander market, Hargovind Enclave, Chhattarpur, Delhi (West), Age- 42 Yrs was traced and the same was found in his possession. On 18.02.2023, accused Amit Kumar was arrested and the IDFC Bank Debit Card linked with IDFC Bank account, in which the entire cheated amount was credited, was recovered from his possession.
After his arrest, he disclosed that he worked with associates who run a fake call center in Delhi for making fraud calls to duped people. He used to withdraw amount from the ATMs using the debit cards which was given to him by his associates on commission basis. Co-accused Anjali used to make call to
the people impersonating herself as bank employee, further used to transfer the calls to her associates. She also maintained the record of called numbers and cheated in diaries and registered which were also recovered from her possession.
They used to call people through virtual numbers by generating it from Indycall Application which was downloaded from Google play store. Letter is being written to Google and Indycall to obtain the details of alleged users.
On 19.02.2023, 04 days Police remand of accused Amit Kumar was taken and on the basis of his disclosure statement, again a raid was conducted at Delhi, and co-accused Ms. Anjali D/o Sh. Rajender Kumar R/o Gali No. 05, Pandav Road, Vishwas Nagar, Shahdara, Delhi was arrested on 21.02.2023.
RECOVERY: Mobile Phones 04, IDFC Bank Debit card 01, SIM cards 02, Diaries and Registers which was being used for making entry of called numbers and amount
The details are being also shared with I4C, MHA to scrutinize the further links in more cases across the India.
MODUS OPERANDI: The cyber criminals used to make calls through virtual numbers by generating it from Indycall Application, to the customers whomsoever applied for credit cards from different banks. They allure the customer that their credit card will be activated and increase the credit card limit. Further they ask for their credit card details, OTP, number etc. and make fraudulent transactions from their credit cards.