Bokaro police on Friday busted a gang allegedly involved in online frauds by arresting its four members. All the four are educated young men who had allegedly been running a fake customer care centre at BSL Qr no 2042, sector 8B –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 SP,Bokaro Kartik S. According to the SP the accused were identified as Sunil Kumar Sinha, resident of Katrisarai, Bihar locality of Nalanda district, Visunu Kumar, belonging to Samsera village in Nalanda district, Rakesh Kumar of Ranipokhar, Bokaro and Santosh Kumar resident at Qr no 1464 near Harla, Bokaro 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 the SP.
Disclosing the modus operandi of the accused, the 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 shop18 and others online data. They have been cheated at least RS 20 lakhs from all over India of date.
The police recovered 23 mobile phones, 10 ATM cards, 17 SIM cards, PAN Card 3, Passbooks 10, Voter card 3, Aadhar card 3, Laptops, Stamp of SBI, one driving license and others meterial from the possession of the accused. The police officials urged people not to give their details to those posing as bank employees or any agents. The special team included Anand Jyoti Minj, Officer-in Charge Kamal Kishore of Balidih police station, Novel Kujur , Pramod Panday and others. Matter is under investigation.