The Oshiwara police on Saturday arrested eight members of a gang involved in a credit card fraud. They also seized bogus documents and fake credit and debit cards
The Oshiwara police on Saturday arrested eight members of a gang involved in a credit card fraud. They also seized bogus documents and fake credit and debit cards from them.
The arrested men have been identified as Sameer Dave, 26, Sudhir Naikare, 27, Mahesh Sharma, 39, Gangesh Pathak, 21, Anand Mishra, 26, Harsh Badgujar, 24, Harshal Kapadia and Mahendra Parekh.
Nayan Bhagdev, branch manager of HSBC bank in Malad, informed the Oshiwara police that some people carrying fake credit cards would arrive near Kamdhenu Shopping Centre in Lokhandwala on Saturday.
An Indigo (MH05-AB-865) with six persons in it arrived at the complex. “Two men came out of the car. They had two credit cards with them and were on their way to the shopping centre,” said inspector Dattatraya Sankhe of Oshiwara police station. “Since their movements were suspicious, the police confronted them. Not convinced with their answers to how they got the cards, the police arrested them,” Sankhe said.
The police recovered eight mobile phones, credit, debit, visa and master cards of 14 different banks, six fake driving licences (four of which were blank), one laptop, a mouse, a pen-drive, a laptop card, a Chinese data transfer machine, a skimmer, an adaptor and a data transfer cable, some ornaments, cash receipts from shops where the credit cards were used and PAN cards containing different names and photographs.
After further interrogation, the police were able to seize 268 fake ration cards (of which 264 were blank), 60 blank driving licences, 230 blank vehicle registration certificate books, six fake seals of RTO, Mumbai, 90 fake ration card covers, a computer and other related equipment.
Explaining the modus operandi of the gang, Sankhe said, “The gang would steal credit cards from people and transfer the data from them on to a blank card using the data transfer machine. They would use the fake cards created thus for shopping. The gang is believed to have shopped for lakhs of rupees.”
“We suspect that the gang might also be involved in vehicle theft. We are on the lookout for the kingpin of the racket, who may be in Delhi,” Sankhe added.
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