The Dumka Cyber cell police on Monday busted a gang allegedly involved in online frauds by arresting its two members.
All the two are qualified young men who had allegedly been running a fake customer care centre in Dumka — a platform used by the accused to pose as verification agents of banks.
They used to allegedly steal the database of bank account holders from the unauthorised online shopping websites and then identify their targets.
The accused were identified as Ashok Bhandari 23, and Rohit Kuka Mandal,25 residents of Kabadindha in Dumka district.
In their mid-25s, the accused used to make fake verification calls to people posing as staffers of a customer care centre to get the details of their debit and credit cards.
Police also recovered ATM Cards - 07 Pieces, mobile phone-05 piece, Cash rupees - Total 2,47,000 (Two Lakh Forty Five Thousand) one motorcycle (JH04L-7723, Suzuki Gixxer),one passbook, (Vananchal Gramin Bank) and one piece of Laptop (of DELL company) from them.
Disclosing the modus operandi of the accused, the DySP Ram Samad said that the accused used to call the debit and credit card holders on the pretext of solving various technical problems related to the cards or telling them that their cards could be blocked if they did not share their details.
Mufassil police station registered a case (70/20)dated under section 419/420/467/468/471/34, SC has been registered in the Act and 66B / C / D / IT Act.