HYDERABAD: Punjagutta police on Monday arrested a gang specialized in deceiving the tele-banking customers and arrested 10 persons including a Nigerian and an employee of the provider of cellular service, Airtel.
On June 2, Anil Sikka, chief executive of an energy company and the telecommunications infrastructure, filed a complaint with police alleging that Rs 5 lakh Punjagutta had been diverted from its bank account with the branch of SBI colony Dwarakapuri.
The police registered a case and a special team was created to crack the crime. After studying the details of bank accounts Anil, police discovered that the money was transferred electronically from your account to an account in SBI Kushal Chatterjee at ICICI Bank Branch MVP Colony Visakhapatnam.
After Kushal mobile tracking, police focused on the whole band staying at Panjagutta Kanakadurga Monday morning. Along with Kushal, police arrested Sunny Uzoma UCE, a Nigerian resident in Bangalore, Bikas Shaw, a Bhaskar Rao, Bipin Kumar Singh, Dilip Kumar Tanti, Shanker Sahu, Arun Kumar Mishra, Ali Lukman and D Venkateshwar Rao.
The band members have confessed that they had been obtaining bank account details of the victims of one of Tony based in Nigeria. From these data, the band first prepare a test of false identity as a driving license on behalf of the victim.
Then called the service provider mobile phone saying that the victim had been lost and the SIM card application to be blocked.
However, when the card is still not locked, the members of the band of those who approach the service provider with proof of fake ID and get a duplicate SIM card.
"Most of these transactions are made late on Saturday night when the office staff of the service provider processing applications are too busy to check closely the forms," Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) , West Zone, M Stephen Ravindra said.
After obtaining the duplicate SIM card, you call the operator from the bank saying he had forgotten his telephone banking PIN and request to send a new PIN. Considering that the band would give the bank details stolen from the victim, the bank quickly sent a new PIN on the mobile phone registered with which fraudsters immediately transfer cash into account its partner.
"Tony gets information about bank accounts of people using various techniques such as phishing. Their key player in India is another operation in Nigeria, Sunny Bangalore. Sunny coordinates with other agents spread across India," said Stephen Ravindra.
Using this method, the band has deceived several clients to the tune of 1.5 crore rupees in the last year. Police have recovered 22 ATM cards, 3.5 tolas of gold, 1.1 lakh rupees in cash, passports Sunny Uzoma, nine duplicate SIM cards, two laptops and cell phones from 15 defendants.
Of those arrested, Venkateshwara Rao is an employee of Airtel in Visakhapatnam and police arrested him on charges of criminal negligence and incitement to crime. "Rao gave a duplicate SIM card without following proper procedure," said PCE.
Those arrested were produced in court and remanded in custody court.
On June 2, Anil Sikka, chief executive of an energy company and the telecommunications infrastructure, filed a complaint with police alleging that Rs 5 lakh Punjagutta had been diverted from its bank account with the branch of SBI colony Dwarakapuri.
The police registered a case and a special team was created to crack the crime. After studying the details of bank accounts Anil, police discovered that the money was transferred electronically from your account to an account in SBI Kushal Chatterjee at ICICI Bank Branch MVP Colony Visakhapatnam.
After Kushal mobile tracking, police focused on the whole band staying at Panjagutta Kanakadurga Monday morning. Along with Kushal, police arrested Sunny Uzoma UCE, a Nigerian resident in Bangalore, Bikas Shaw, a Bhaskar Rao, Bipin Kumar Singh, Dilip Kumar Tanti, Shanker Sahu, Arun Kumar Mishra, Ali Lukman and D Venkateshwar Rao.
The band members have confessed that they had been obtaining bank account details of the victims of one of Tony based in Nigeria. From these data, the band first prepare a test of false identity as a driving license on behalf of the victim.
Then called the service provider mobile phone saying that the victim had been lost and the SIM card application to be blocked.
However, when the card is still not locked, the members of the band of those who approach the service provider with proof of fake ID and get a duplicate SIM card.
"Most of these transactions are made late on Saturday night when the office staff of the service provider processing applications are too busy to check closely the forms," Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) , West Zone, M Stephen Ravindra said.
After obtaining the duplicate SIM card, you call the operator from the bank saying he had forgotten his telephone banking PIN and request to send a new PIN. Considering that the band would give the bank details stolen from the victim, the bank quickly sent a new PIN on the mobile phone registered with which fraudsters immediately transfer cash into account its partner.
"Tony gets information about bank accounts of people using various techniques such as phishing. Their key player in India is another operation in Nigeria, Sunny Bangalore. Sunny coordinates with other agents spread across India," said Stephen Ravindra.
Using this method, the band has deceived several clients to the tune of 1.5 crore rupees in the last year. Police have recovered 22 ATM cards, 3.5 tolas of gold, 1.1 lakh rupees in cash, passports Sunny Uzoma, nine duplicate SIM cards, two laptops and cell phones from 15 defendants.
Of those arrested, Venkateshwara Rao is an employee of Airtel in Visakhapatnam and police arrested him on charges of criminal negligence and incitement to crime. "Rao gave a duplicate SIM card without following proper procedure," said PCE.
Those arrested were produced in court and remanded in custody court.
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