2 held for selling bank accounts to cyber fraudsters

The Gurugram police have arrested two fraudsters who used to open bank accounts of people in the name of getting them jobs and then sold the accounts to cyber criminals.

The accused have sold over 100 such accounts. Upon their arrest, the police seized eight mobile phones, seven ATM cards, two cheque books and 15 SIM cards from their possession.

According to the police, a man had filed a complaint on August 30 that he had met a person called Kuldeep, who told him that his friend Rahul alias Abhiram helped needy people get jobs, for which he needed a bank account. Having being lured in, Kuldeep took him to Bajghera village where Rahul alias Abhiram and another man opened an account using his Aadhaar and PAN card.

“Kuldeep asked me to take the account documents later. After a few days, I asked him about my account to which he said it had been taken by Abhiram,” the complainant told the police.

An FIR was registered at the Cyber Crime Police Station (West). While investigating, the police team arrested the two accused on September 1. Rahul (26) is a resident of Sumbha village of Bihar and Amir Hussain alias Amit (29) is a native of West Bengal. They have been taken on a two-day remand.

“During interrogation, the accused revealed that they had opened over 100 bank accounts by creating 50 fake e-mail IDs,” a police spokesperson said.