3 held for hacking e-bank accounts

A Nigerian and two others have been arrested in south Delhi for allegedly hacking into e-bank accounts of people and buying articles, including laptops, police said.

A Nigerian and two others have been arrested in south Delhi for allegedly hacking into e-bank accounts of people and buying articles, including laptops, police said.

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The accused operated from Mumbai and Bangalore and made calls to customers on the pretext of changing their bank mandates.

The arrested have been identified Praveen Gupta (27), a Nepali national, Promise Eke (27), a Nigerian, and Tashi Wangchuk (21) from Sikkim, said HGS Dhaliwal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South).

The police recovered eight laptops, 10 digital cameras and 17 Blackberry phones, all worth R10 lakh, from the possession of the accused. The arrests came following a probe about money being fraudulently withdrawn from three ICICI bank accounts.

Dhaliwal said it came to light that the huge transaction has been incurred towards Future Bazaar located in Mumbai and Bangalore from these three accounts.

"We procured the details of the buyers as well as the delivery address given to the courier company. The courier company was approached and a police team along with a delivery boy went to the address but could not find anyone," he said.

"They generated SMSes from ICICI Call Centre for winning the confidence of account holders. They used to arrange information regarding parentage, date of birth, name of the nominee, etc.,” Dhaliwal said.