Techie among two held for credit card fraud

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police arrested two people — a BTech engineer and a science graduate — on Thursday, for allegedly posing as bank officials to verify debit and

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police arrested two people — a BTech engineer and a science graduate — on Thursday, for allegedly posing as bank officials to verify debit and credit cards of customers.

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The men were arrested from Deogarh in Jharkhand.

Sawan Verma,(25) and Manish Rai (26), convinced people to share their passwords, which they then used for shopping and other transactions.

Verma and Rai recently duped a doctor of RML hospital to the tune of several thousands.

“The duo used to gather details about the credit, ATM and debit cards from people, posing as bank officials on the pretext of card verification and used Paytm Mobile Solutions’ to transfer the amount in another bank account in Jharkhand. They used to withdraw the amount through their ATM,” joint commissioner of police, crime, Ravindra Yadav said.

The gang’s operations came to notice on June 21, when Dinesh Kumar, head, division of paediatric cardiology, RML Hospital, filed a complaint alleging that he received phone calls from Ravi Sharma, an employee of State Bank of India.

“After Kumar shared his details and disconnected the call, he received a message that his SIM has been blocked and that a new SIM card would be sent, as requested by him, to his residence. His phone stopped working. It is then when Kumar realised that it was a fraud call,” Yadav said.

“Kumar immediately called up his bank but by the time he could get access, the culprits already withdrawn Rs 1,20,000 in four instalments. He blocked his card to avoid a fifth withdrawal,” Yadav said.

The crime branch then formed a special team to track the men. During investigation, police found that the men were transferring the duped money from SBI Branch in Deogarh, Jharkhand.

“The men used fake IDs to operate Paytm. Information was developed using their bank account numbers and call detail records and their location was traced. A team then went to Jharkhand and made the arrests,” Yadav said.

During interrogation, the two confessed that they used to make random phone calls to mobile phone numbers using different SIM cards and obtained details of debit and credit cards, posing as bank officials. After obtaining the card details, the duo made fraudulent transactions from the said account.