The Giridih police on Sunday afternoon busted a gang allegedly involved in online frauds by arresting its ten members. The five or six among them are local youths, who had allegedly been running a fake customer care centre at Rasanjori village near Katua Ahri pond within limits of Ahilyapur police station used by the accused to pose as Manager as well as verification agents of banks.
They used to allegedly steal the database of bank account holders from the unauthorized online shopping websites and then indentify their targets, said Cyber Dy SP, Sandip Suman.
According to the Cyber Dy SP the accused were identified as Guru Lal Rana, Birju Rana, resident of Rasanjori; Sumit Kumar Rana, Chandrashekhar Kumar Mandal, belonging to Karitard village in Dhanbad district; Sandip Mandal and Dhiran Mandal of Santhaldih of Dhanbad district, while Tulsi Mandal, resident at Bisanpur area near Bengabad in Giridih, Amit Kumar Mandal is belonging to Jamtara district, Mukesh Kumar Mandal of Giridih and one other, while one Pappu Rana in his mid-20s, managed to flee from the spot.
Police said that the accused used to make fake verification calls to innocent people posing as staffers of a customer care centre or Bank manager to get the details of their debit and credit cards, added the Cyber DySP. The police have recovered 17 mobiles,11ATMs,11 passbooks and others objectionable items from them.The Cyber DySP Sandip Suman urged peoples not to give their details to those posing as Bank employees or any against of customer care. However, the bank manager could not call any their customers for any information. If someone who called any bank customers and demanded any information of their accounts, immediately they should inform local police or Bank officials.
Disclosing the modus operandi of the accused, the Cyber Dy SP 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 and getting details from customers and then they have been using online costly marketing through Paytm, flipcart, Home shop and others online. The special team included Faiz Ahmad, Officer-in Charge of Ahilyapur police station and others.