3 held in 86 cases of credit card fraud

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, April 20

The district police have claimed to have busted a gang of cyber criminals with the arrest of three persons. The accused have been found to have been involved in 86 cases of credit card fraud.

A spokesperson of the district police said the accused, identified as Gaurav, Abhishek and Pawan, all hailing from Delhi, had been arrested on the basis of the information collected by the cyber cell in response to a complaint by a local resident.

The complainant Kavish, a resident of Sector 7, had told the police in February this year that he had been cheated of Rs 1.21 lakh by some persons who had offered to provide him credit card facility through company Bajaj Finserv in this sector.

As the cyber cell of the police, which registered a case, succeeded to nab the accused on March 28 from their place, interrogation revealed that being the recovery agents of Kotak Mahindra Bank, they used to call the customers through a fake call centre and used to offer handsome discount for getting their present credit card replaced with a new one. After collecting all information, including the credit card statement and the OTP, the accused used to get money transferred to an account created on the website of a real estate company. A total 59 mobile phones were used in the crimes. —

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