Jaipur police crime branch cracked on interstate gand of cons which were responsible for taking out the debit card and credit card information from the customers. They even siphoned many lakhs of currency during this. Six people have been arrested in this, and they even used to take family vacations to Khandala and Lonawala from the money earned on cheating.
Police is claiming it to be the biggest seize of the recent time and out of six, five belong to Pune and one from Mumbai. Almost all the arrested youths belong to Jamtara district of Jharkhand and had shifted themselves to Pune when local police had catched them two years ago. From the accused gang, police seized the cash amount of Rs. 10 lakh, 15 mobile phones, 15 SIM cards and ATM cards.
In the recent days, city’s police stations had registered more than 500 cybercrime cases. Since then, police’s technical surveillance teams were on the tracking of IP addresses and mobile phone numbers.
Sanjay Agarwal, the commissioner of police said, “It is a result of well-coordinated efforts and technical surveillance as we managed to arrest six youths”.
Agarwal also said, “Five accused who were arrested from Taleygaon Dhabhrey village of Maharastra included Yusuf (36), Mukhtiyar (27), Akhtar (26), all natives of Jamtara (Jharkhand) and Sanjay Singhey (26) and Shailesh both natives of Talegaon Dhabrey in Pune district”.
Commissioner also said, that the new system which has been introduced by the bank of adding Adhaar card is becoming their method of cheating.
Vikas Pathak, the deputy commissioner of police said, “They used to call up people as bankers and used to tell them that their saving account is been blocked since the customer failed to provide Aadhaar card number. Later, when subscribing to this idea when the victim used to share Aadhaar card number they used to ask them about the 16-digit number on the debit card and CCV number on the back of it. Thereafter the money was transferred through online shopping”.
