The Giridih police on Thursday busted a gang allegedly involved in online frauds by arresting its two members .They used to allegedly steal the database of bank account holders from the un-authorized online shopping websites and then identify their targets, said SDPO Manish Toppo of Giridih.
The Ganday police recovered 2 no of ATM card, two mobiles; one voter ID, two motorcycles while they have also withdrawn Rs 40,000 from account and purchased new motorcycle on Wednesday.
Which was also seized by the police .The accused were identified as Mithlesh Mandal and Bajarangi Mandal resident of Ahilayapur, Giridih.
In their mid -25s, the accused used to make fake verification call to people posing as staffers of a bank to get the details of their debit and credit cards.
Disclosing the modus operandi of the accused, the SDPO ,Manish Toppo 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. They could have truncation of Rs 8 lakh in first phase while Rs 2.94 lakhs have drawn in the second phase by them, police further added.
The team led by officer in-charge Kamlesh Prasad has arrested them near bank of India branch in Ganday area ,using various methods of cyber crime here on Thursday.