The Giridih (Ahilayapur) Police on Thursday busted a gang allegedly involved in online frauds by arresting its five members. All the five persons are educated young men who had allegedly been running a fake customer care centre in Giridih – 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 unauthorized online shopping websites and then indentify their targets, said DySP, Giridih Sandeep Suman.
According to the Dy SP (Cyber Crime) the accused were identified as Chhoti Mandal, Bajrangi Mandal, Rupesh Kumar Mandal, Kamta Mandal, and Ajay Mandal -- all residents at Chamlitti village of Ahilayapur locality of Giridih district. In their mid-20s, 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, added Dy SP .
Disclosing the modus operandi of the accused, the SP Giridih SK Jha 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, SP said.
Police recovered 11 mobiles and 14 SIM cards from the possession of the accused. The Dy SP, Sandeep Suman and other police officials urged people not to give their details to those posing as bank employees or any agents.
Police sources claimed to have busted a gang of cyber criminals, after getting s tip-off of Giridih SP, when the police team led by Dy SP , Sandeep Suman alongwith Officer In-Charge raided the place while all cyber criminals who were sitting near village pond and have been trying to cheating innocent bank customers on .While seeing the police team criminals started fleeing .After long chesses police arrested five of them.