With the arrest of three persons, Delhi Police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a racket of inter-state cyber cheats who to earn money quickly used to make calls from Jharkhand to gullible people and used to collect their vital information of debit and credit card by masquerading themselves as bank employees on the pretext of renewing cards.
"We had registered a First Information report (FIR) on complaint by Prabeer Kumar Basu alleging that he had received a call in which the caller asked his card details by pretending himself as an SBI employee after which about Rs 50 thousand was deducted from his SBI account. During the course of investigation, it was found that accused Chandan Mandal had made a call to the complainant from his mobile from Jamtara, Jharkhand and transferred the amount of Rs 19,990, Rs 10,000, Rs 9,999 and 9,990 in four online wallets of M-Pesa, PayU and Ola Money," said Ajit Kumar Singla, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch).
"Acting on the information and on the basis of electronic surveillance of the caller, accused Chandan Mandal was pinpointed in the area of Mohanpur, Bansphari Karmatar (Jamtara), Jharkhand and two of his other associates were pinpointed in the area of Kulti in West Bengal. With the help of local police the team nabbed all the three cheats Chandan Mandal, Manoj Hari and Pappu Kumar Singh," said Singla.