Four persons have been arrested for their alleged involvement in mobile internet banking fraud using <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">duplicate SIM cards, police said on Monday.
Acting on a complaint of one Bhushan Kumar Jain in August, police arrested Sonu Dubey (27), Ravi Shankar Pandey (40), Bunty (22) and Pawan (19) for duping people by getting duplicate SIM of their mobile numbers issued after getting the original one blocked and then siphoned off money from their accounts using internet banking.
According to the complaint, Bhushan’s mobile number all of a sudden became inactive on 17 August following which he got a duplicate SIM card issued.
However, <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the duplicate SIM card also got de-activated on 19 August and the following day <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Bhushan was informed by Krishna Nagar Branch of Axis Bank that Rs 5,78,000 has been withdrawn from his bank account through internet banking, deputy commissioner of police (east) Ajay Kumar said.
Upon investigation police nabbed Pawan, and later Sonu was traced and arrested. On his instance, Bunty, who used to block phone numbers of the targeted account holders and got new SIM card issued of the same number on fake documents, was nabbed.
Acting on a complaint of one Bhushan Kumar Jain in August, police arrested Sonu Dubey (27), Ravi Shankar Pandey (40), Bunty (22) and Pawan (19) for duping people by getting duplicate SIM of their mobile numbers issued after getting the original one blocked and then siphoned off money from their accounts using internet banking.
According to the complaint, Bhushan’s mobile number all of a sudden became inactive on 17 August following which he got a duplicate SIM card issued.
However, <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the duplicate SIM card also got de-activated on 19 August and the following day <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Bhushan was informed by Krishna Nagar Branch of Axis Bank that Rs 5,78,000 has been withdrawn from his bank account through internet banking, deputy commissioner of police (east) Ajay Kumar said.
Upon investigation police nabbed Pawan, and later Sonu was traced and arrested. On his instance, Bunty, who used to block phone numbers of the targeted account holders and got new SIM card issued of the same number on fake documents, was nabbed.