Giridih police on Thursday evening arrested at least eight people involved in cyber fraud. The criminals were held from village Jorasimar from Ahilayapur police station area by an operation headed by Officer-in charge Shashi Ranjan Kumar.
As many as 17 mobiles phones including six smart phones, 11 small mobile phones and 29 SIM cards were recovered from them, said SDPO Manish Toppo.
The Ahilayapur police in-charge Shashi Ranjan Kumar along with ASI Sunil Topono and ASI of Cyber cell Uday Kumar Singh arrested all 8 members of the gang near the house of Chetlal Mandal at Jorasimar village .
The accused have been identified as Pradeep Mandal,Manjesh Mandal, Jaideo Verma, Suresh Mandal Vikash Mandal, Robin Mandal, Dilip Mandal and Suraj Mandal.
Police said that they used to call up people posing bank officials and would tell ATM card holders that their ATM was being stopped and then ask them to reveal their pin numbers. Many people revealed their pin number and later they were cheated," said Toppo.
All branch managers regularly advised their customer not to disclose their debit and credit card details to anyone over mobile. After receiving pin number the gang members transferred money from the victim's account to their bank account, added Toppo.