Cyber-crime branch busted a five-member gang from Jharkhand and Odisha involved in duping people in the name of KYC update and ATM card closure by posing as bank officials; 100 bank accounts were used by the criminals to dupe victims, which are numerous and duped amount would run in crores of rupees, said police.

The gang active for over four years have targeted thousands of victims across the country.

Accused managed to remain absconding with the help of villagers of villages at Jharkhand- West Bengal border and were dodging police of two states for long.

The nabbed accused were identified as Mohammad Imran Ansari, Abhisek Kumar Singh, Mohammad Afzal, Sanju Devnath and Ghulam Mustafa.

Imran would call posing as SBI officials while Ghulam would sell bank accounts opened using fake documents while others would work to provide SIM cards and withdraw money.

The Bhopal based victim was duped of Rs 1040320 in the name of updating KYC and based on the complaint gang was busted. Accused posing as an SBI officer made a call in the name of updating the KYC of the bank account, in which the complainant's account number, ATM card number and OTP were asked to the complainant and 27 times money was debited.

In the investigation money was found to be transferred from the complainant's account to a total of 8 bank accounts.

Accused used to select the victim by checking profile of Facebook, Instagram etc. The bank account is bought by the accused from the account holders for Rs 10000 – Rs 15000.

West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra are states were the accused have targeted victims.

One SBI account passbook, 13 mobile phones, 11 ATM cards, 50 fake SIMs have been recovered.