Faridabad: Cybercrime gang busted, 5 arrested

Faridabad, December 22

Busting a gang of cyber criminals, the local police have arrested five persons allegedly involved in cheating customers through cyber means.

A spokesperson of the Police Department said that the accused identified as Vikas, Rohit, Imran, Mujib and Amanullah alias Guddu were nabbed from Uttar Pradesh and Delhi after a raid on December 19.

He said the accused had been involved in cheating customers using credit cards by providing attractive offers online. It is reported that Vikas is the mastermind of the crime. While Vikas and Imran are serving jail sentence in Delhi, a transaction of Rs 65 lakh has taken place from the bank account of Rohit, another accused.

The police had launched an investigation in response to a complaint lodged by one Yashpal, a local who had been cheated of Rs 95,000 by the accused a few weeks ago.

Revealing the modus operandi, Nitesh Aggarwal, DCP Crime, said that the accused used to procure data of credit card holders of a bank from a website and contacted them through emails and SMS, offering facility of cashing the reward points instantly.

Claiming that a fake link was sent to the customers to get the details of the cards, he said the accused had created a similar-looking but fake website of the bank to dupe the account holders.

The money deposited in the wallet of the customers in the bank website was transferred to the account of the accused after completion of formalities, it is stated. The gang had been involved in more than 50 incidents, it is claimed. While Vikas has been in police remand, other four accused have been remanded to judicial custody. — TNS