Cyber Crime Bhopal nabbed a miscreant from Delhi, who duped a victim to the tune of Rs 81550 by fraudulently obtaining OTP of his credit card. The miscreant was nabbed after the victim was duped by the accused who was identified as Furqan Khan.
A complaint was lodged with the Cyber cell by the victim and in his compliant, he stated that he was duped by the accused who posed as Axis bank employee and asked for details of credit card in the name of updating it and obtained OTP generated during the process.
In the technical analysis, it was found that the money was transferred in two e-wallet account and using the details accused was tracked. The accused is involved in tailoring work and arrested from Delhi.
Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation, the police registered a case under section 420 of the IPC.During the investigation police found that the accused with the help of his aides used to call victims and would obtain OTP fraudulently and commit the fraud. As soon as the money was transferred in these e-wallets accused would withdraw using ATM.
Police said that the accused was nabbed and a mobile phone, a bank cheque book and bank pass book which was used to cheat the victim was recovered. Later, in the investigation it was found that the accused has cheated several victims across the country. The number of victims could be numerous who have been duped by the accused would be investigated.