A leading private bank has registered a complaint with the Bandra Kurla Complex police alleging that 32 of its customers were duped by a group of cyber crooks by procuring their credit card data and doing purchases worth Rs2.20 lakh. The crime branch is now investigating the case and sleuths say that several people making calls from different states, are suspected to be involved in the fraud. The individuals are not even connected with each other, which makes investigation difficult.
A leading private bank has registered a complaint with the Bandra Kurla Complex police alleging that 32 of its customers were duped by a group of cyber crooks by procuring their credit card data and doing purchases worth Rs2.20 lakh. The crime branch is now investigating the case and sleuths say that several people making calls from different states, are suspected to be involved in the fraud. The individuals are not even connected with each other, which makes investigation difficult.
According to police sources, over a six-month period, the suspects made phone calls and sent text messages to 32 customers of the bank, claiming to be bank officials.
A crime branch officer said that different modus operandi was used to secure card details from customers. "In some cases, the fraudsters entrapped customers by informing them that they have won prizes from the bank. In other cases, the crooks threatened to close the account as the card was not being used regularly," added the officer.
Once the fraudsters were had the customers' card details, officers say that laptops are believed to have been used to do purchases.
"Mostly, mobile recharges and cellphone purchases were made online from the money obtained. Since the bank is situated in BKC, the case has been registered with BKC police," said the officer.
Police investigation has revealed that the calls were made from various across the country in cities such as Jharkhand, Bihar, Delhi and Haryana. "We are getting the details of each SIM card involved in the fraud and are investigating the case," the officer said.
A case has been registered IPC Sections 419 (impersonation), 420 (cheating), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention), as well as Sections 66 (computer related offence), 66C (whoever fraudulently or dishonestly makes use of electronic signature, password or any other unique identification feature of any other person) and 66D (whoever by means of any communication device or computer resource cheats by impersonation) of the Information Technology Act.
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