Twenty four hours after busting a gang of cyber criminals by arresting one Rizwan Ansari and one Irshad Ansari, the police on Sunday arrested four more persons involved in the racket which was running at Dumka and Deoghar cities since past several years. Those arrested today were identified as Badruudin Ansari, Faruq Ansari, Sintu Kumar and Sanjay Mandal,said DySP (Cyber) Sriram Samad.
Cyber police of Dumka during probe found that a seven-member gang of cyber criminals were running a racket of siphoning off money from people’s bank account.
DySP Sriram Samad said the one accused in the racket, Sanjay Mandal has fled the city along with his others member as the police started cracking on the gang having got a complaint through case no 36/20 at Taljhari police station under 467,468,471,419,420 ,120B, of IPC lodged by the victim on Saturday.
Police have recovered one Honda Sine motorcycle (JH-15T-1734), 5 no of mobiles, 9 ATMs and cash Rs 8710 from them.
Police sources said that Sintu Mandal and Sanjay Mandal had, however, kept the passbooks and ATM cards of all the different bank accounts with them,and four others youths who were doing cyber crime under commission for them.
Speaking about the modus operandi, Sriram Samad said the racketeers Santu Mandal and his key associate, Sanjay Mandal had opened websites for various banks’ customer care service.
Whenever any account holder tried to access to the customer care service by searching the number in Google, the cyber criminals would given a link to the customer.
He pointed out as soon as the customer clicks the link, the criminals get every details of the customers, including the bank account number. Then they immediately get the amount tapped off from the customer’s account and first get it deposit in the account of victims and get the money transferred to other account.
A police official said that with the city going hi-tech, cybercrime cases are also on the rise. He pointed out that people should be aware of the recruitment processes of major companies in order to avoid being duped.
They should also come forward to prefer a complaint rather than withdrawing into a shell and being secretive about the whole incident. Their complaints will help saving other people from becoming victims, he added.