Cyber criminals dupe banker of thousands

The senior manager of a nationalised bank was left aghast when he recently received his credit card bank statement as it showed transactions worth thousands of rupees which he had never done.

Further inquiries revealed that purchases and online mobile recharges were done through his credit card. The Pydhonie police are investigating the case.

Police sources said the 57-year-old complainant is a resident of Goregaon (East). In his police statement, he said he had been using a credit card, with a limit of Rs75,000, since 2007.

A police officer said, “As per the complainant, in February this year, he received his credit card statement and found out that some unknown person had made online mobile phone recharge of nearly Rs74,000 through his card. The victim then called the bank and got his card blocked.”

“We suspect that the cyber fraudsters managed to get the victim’s credit card details and did all those transactions. We are trying to get details of the internet protocol address that the fraudsters used to make the transactions,” he added.

Senior inspector Dinesh Ahir said, “We have registered a case under sections 419 (punishment for cheating by personation) and 420 (punishment for cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and under relevant sections of the Information and Technology Act against unknown person/s. Investigations are on and no arrests have been made in the case yet.”