Cyber crime police have nabbed four cyber criminals from Bihar who were involved in a fraud of Rs 10 lakh and freezed Rs 8 lakh in bank accounts, said SP Cyber Crime Vaibhav Srivastava.
The victim was cheated by the accused posing as customer care officer of HDFC Bank, victim was duped to the tune of Rs 10 lakh and transferring amount in fake bank accounts by fraudulently obtaining OTPs of internet banking in the name of waiving off credit card charges.
Superintendent of Police (State Cyber Police, Bhopal) Vaibhav Srivastava said that taking quick action on the said complaint by the team, about Rs 8 lakh were traced and frozen in the bank.
The police team conducted raids in Patna, Mumbai, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur for 4 consecutive days and established the identity of the robbers.
On the basis of technical evidence, many people were interrogated and the main accused involved in the cheating gang.
Three other accused including mastermind Faiz Ali were arrested.
The accused had been cheating with fake SIMs for several months. By making random calls, the bank's fictitious customer's head officer tried to waive off the credit card charges. By cheating first they collect details of bank ID then to complete the further process to waive off the charges would take OTP received on the mobile on the pretext of resetting the password of his bank's internet banking and would commit fraud.
Main accused mastermind Faiz Ali and fake bank account passbooks, fake Aadhaar cards, pay cards
The nabbed accused were identified as Faizan Ali, Bikesh kumar, Deepak Thakur and Deepak Kumar of Bihar.