BHOPAL: Cyber crime branch on Saturday busted a Bihar-based gang involved in stealing and selling bank account details to online fraudsters on commission basis for unauthorised transactions.
Police arrested six members of the gang including two Bhopal-based youths and two Bihar-based youths, who were studying engineering in Bhopal. The Bhopal-based youths lured job seekers offering them lucrative jobs and then took their bank documents including chequebook, passbook and ATM card, which they sold through their channel to online fraudsters for unauthorised transactions. The accused revealed to have sold around 500 bank account details to online fraudsters in the last two years.
Police seized 25 bank passbooks, 22 ATM cards, 22 mobile phones, 18 other SIM cards, two ‘desi katta’ (country made guns) and an SUV from their possession. The accused confessed that they had duped job aspirants across the country.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sai Krishna S Thota said that police busted the gang on the basis of a complaint filed by a Piplani based 25-year-old girl. The girl claimed that she came in contact with Ayush Litoria, a resident of Piplani, through her friend. Ayush lured her in the trap on the pretext of a better job opportunity in a private company in Indore and asked her to open a bank account for receiving her monthly salary. He took her bank passbook, ATM card and cheque book on the pretext of verification and activation of salary account. Recently, the bank officials contacted her and informed her that unauthorised transactions of Rs 41 lakh were done in the month of November in her bank account.
The girl had not done a single transaction, so she filed a complaint with the cyber crime branch.
