Bokaro police on Saturday evening arrested three cyber criminals from Jarmundi area within limits of the same police station.
The arrested persons were involved in swapping ATM cards, hacking ATM machines and doing fraudulent online shopping for the last several months in Giridih, said Bokaro SP, P.Murugan.
The arrested criminals were Taiab, Afzal and Reyajudin belonging to Jarmundi village.
Police also recovered, 5 mobiles,one laptop, two passbooks,5 ATM cards, two cheque books and 11 SIM cards, police said.
Bokaro SP, P Murugan said they used to hack ATM machines after which in guise of helping customers, the arrested persons swapped victim’s ATM cards and know the PIN codes which they used to feed in machine while withdrawing also used in online shopping.
He said the ATM cards of victims were later used to online shopping.