The Cyber Crime police have arrested a man, identified as Vijay Samadhan Khaderao, for allegedly duping a BARC official to the tune of Rs10 lakh by misusing his netbanking facility and siphoning the money from his salary account. The police suspect that more people could be involved in the crime.
According to the police, the victim (name withheld), has a BARC salary account with State Bank of India. The victim had netbanking facility and had been settling his gas, telephone, mobile phone and railway ticket bills through his bank account.
“On April 15, when the victim was trying to make a call from his mobile, his calls could not get through. He had given the number for netbanking facility. When he checked his account balance, he learnt that Rs10 lakh had been siphoned from his bank account,” said a cyber crime officer, requesting anonymity.
He added that, next day a man who identified himself as A Shah came to his residence and informed him that he had received a request to activate his phone number.
“The victim was baffled when the customer executive told him that a request had been made asking for re-issuing the same SIM card as the mobile had been stolen. When the victim went through the form, the photograph of ‘applicant’ belonged to someone else,” the officer said.
The victim lodged a complaint with the cyber crime cell police. “During investigations, we learnt that 27 money transfers had been carried out from the victim’s account. We arrested Khaderao, as one of the account to which the money was transferred belonged to him. We suspect that more people are involved in the crime,” the officer said.
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