Cyber Crime Bhopal busted an interstate gang and nabbed three miscreants from 24 Parganas West Bengal who were involved in duping victims in the name of redeeming reward points of credit card; Bihar-Bengal gang duped Rs 25 lakh from the victims.
Accused used to cheat in the name of expiry of reward points in credit card. The accused used OTP on the pretext of using credit card reward points for shopping.
The accused would collect all the credit card information on the pretext of settling the credit card reward point. The accused use people for opening accounts to commit fraud.
In order to break the chain of transaction, the accused transfer money from one account to another by withdrawing money in connivance with the operator of the customer service center.
The accused would call from Delhi and using accounts from Bihar and West Bengal victims were duped to the tune of Rs 20 lakhs.
On November 22, 2021, Sandeep Kumar Chaudhary, lodged complaint with cyber crime cell that on November 20 he received call that his credit card has got reward points and reward points will expire, accused collected credit card details and cheated him of Rs 1.1 lakh.
Based on the complaint accused identified as Adwadi Kumar of Bihar, Nirbhay Kumar Bhardwaj of Bihar and Kumar Satyam of Bihar were arrested.
Modus operandi of accused would be to contact people posing as employees of credit card company and tell that if the reward points are not used then they will expire, which you can use for shopping or settling the statement and would cheat.
Four android mobile phones, seven SIMS, three different Debit cards of banks and an ICICI Bank check book have been seized.