The Noida police on Saturday mentioned it has arrested 4 males, together with a supply govt for e-commerce corporations, who’ve allegedly duped scores of individuals by fraudulently swapping their debit playing cards on the pretext of serving to them with withdrawals at ATM kiosks.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida) Ranvijay Singh mentioned the accused, who’ve been working as a gang since 2019, would additionally clone ATM playing cards of gullible folks utilizing skimmers.
Police mentioned it has seized 42 ATM playing cards, 41 Aadhaar playing cards and 13 cell phones from the gang’s possession and estimated that the fraud dedicated by them could possibly be value crores of rupees however actual particulars of funds are being ascertained.
The gang has been busted by officers of the Sector 58 police station beneath the supervision of ACP (Noida 2) Rajneesh Verma, Singh mentioned, including that the mastermind of the group has been recognized however is at massive.
“One person, Jai Prakash Verma, was arrested first and when checked, his bank account showed transactions of Rs 34.50 lakh over the last two years, raising suspicion about his activities. The matter was probed and his three other associated were also held,” Singh advised reporters.
The police mentioned the gang had three modes of duping folks.
“They would stand at an ATM kiosk and wait for some gullible person to come for withdrawal. There, on the pretext of helping the person, they would note their pin code and stealthily exchange their ATM card with theirs. Later, they would take out money using the stolen ATM card,” Singh mentioned.
“The gang also had ATM cloning machines which they used to clone cards. Not only would they use the cloned cards for illegal withdrawals, but also used the details of bank accounts of targeted persons for making financial transactions,” the officer mentioned.
Elaborating on the third technique, Verma mentioned, “One of the accused, Jai Prakash, worked as a delivery executive for e-commerce companies. During delivery of items, he would carry cloning machines and insisted on swiping the customers cards for payments.” The ACP additionally cautioned folks to be cautious whereas conducting monetary transactions with strangers or on-line.
Meanwhile, Singh mentioned police have additionally recovered some cast Aadhaar playing cards from the accused which had been used for opening financial institution accounts to facilitate fraudulent transactions.
Police have recovered 42 ATM playing cards which had transactions of Rs 34 to Rs 35 lakh every, suggesting a large-scale fraud by the gang whose particulars are beneath investigation.
Those arrested have been recognized as Jai Prakash Verma, Armaan, Tito Das and Neeraj Kumar, the police mentioned.
An FIR was lodged within the case beneath Indian Penal Code sections 420 (dishonest), 467, 468, and 471 (associated to forgery), 120B (prison conspiracy) whereas the accused have additionally been booked beneath provisions of the Information Technology Act, police added.
Police have urged folks to instantly report cyber frauds on the devoted helpline quantity 1930 or 112.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”