The Giridih police on Thursday evening busted a gang allegedly involved in online frauds by arresting its two members .They used to allegedly steal the database of bank account holders from the un-authorized online shopping websites and then identify their targets, said SDPO Manish Toppo of Giridih.
The Taratard police recovered four mobiles and 7 sim cards which were seized by the Officer-on charge of Taratard police station Faiz Ahmad under guidance of SDPO Manish Toppo .
The accused were arrested at Jhitri forest area and identified as Babloo Mandal and Anil Mandal. In their mid -25s, the accused used to make fake verification call to people posing as staffers of a bank to get the details of their debit and credit cards.
Disclosing the modus operandi of the accused, the SDPO, Manish Toppo said that the accused used to call the debit and credit card holders on the pretext of solving various technical problems related to the cards or telling them that their cards could be blocked if they did not share their details. They could have truncation of several thousand of rupees from different account numbers of the different peoples of Giridih, police further added. Police have registered a case under IT act of different IPC at Taratard police station.