After the arrest of four persons, the Central Crime Branch (CCB) claimed to have busting an inter-State gang who used to cheat credit card holders in the name of upgrading their account. The gang have cheated several people to the tune of about Rs 10 lakh, police claimed on Monday.
According to police the accused have been identified as Raja alias Amit Saxena, native of Nanakpuri, Delhi, Kautilya Sharma, native of Govindpuri South Delhi, Dheeraj Kumar Solanki, resident of Govindpuri South Delhi and Malkit alias Malli Jogindar Singh, native of Nankpuri South Delhi. The accused used to contact people and dupe then in name of upgrading their card limit.
Describing about the modus operandi of the accused, police said, one of them used to call any person as representative of any bank and tell him that his credit limit of his account has been raised. later one of them reached the house of person in guise of
representative of bank and used to ask for the card.
After taking the credit card from the person, the accused used to cut the card in front of card holder, but in such a way that magnetic strip of the card remains undamaged. The unsuspecting card holder then use to tell the accused his account password and other detail. later they used to do shopping in malls at Delhi through the credit card, police added.
The gang was under the scanner of Raipur police for a long time but was arrested in Delhi. The accused have duped residents of Raipur, Durg-Bhilai, Indore, Gwalior and other cities. So far they would have duped about Rs 10 lakh, police claimed. The gang has been brought to Raipur on transit remand for investigation, police said.