Shahdara district of Delhi Police has busted a gang of cheats who duped hundreds of bank account holders of lakhs of rupees by asking them their One Time Passwords (OTPs).
With the arrest of seven men, the police unearthed a gang who was involved in duping innocent people by obtaining the details of their bank accounts. The accused were running a fake call center to get the required details and used to get One Time Password by their targets.
Nupur Prasad, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) said, "The gang was running a fake call centre at Sagarpur in South West Delhi. They used to operate their call centre by using mobile SIMs obtained on fake ID papers.”
On November 18, based on a secret information that a man will come at GT Road near SBI Bank to sell SIM cards issued on fake IDs. A police team laid a trap near SBI Bank at GT Road. At about 2.30 pm, a man identified as Sanjay Chaddha was caught by the team along with a scooty, the DCP said.
“Twenty-eight SIM cards, activated on fake IDs of Idea Company, were recovered from his possession. On verification of SIMs, it was found that all SIMs are activated and issued on fake addresses. A case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered at MS Park.
During interrogation of Sanjay, he disclosed that he and his brother Sanjeev Chaddha purchased such SIM cards from Akashay of Jankapuri. Sanjay also disclosed that he had sold about 1,000 SIMs of different companies to different Call Centers in Delhi/NCR.
After that a raid was conducted at Sagarpur, on the instance of Sanjay Chaddha. A call center by the name of Just Deal Bazar was running from there. On interrogation, employees of that company disclosed that they make calls in the name of different banks to the people of South India region for the purpose of obtaining OTP Bank messages received in their mobiles," said Prasad.
The officer said that five people Amir, Sandeep, Abhishek, Kundan and Satyan of that Call Center have also been arrested. Sanjeev Chaddha, brother of Sanjay Chaddha also arrested in this case. Akshay, the dealer of SIM is absconding and both the directors of call center Tishu Verma and Rishu Verma are also absconding. All the arrested accused persons have been sent to judicial custodt. Sixty pre activated SIM on fake IDs, 20 walkie talkie 11 mobile phones were recovered from their possession."