New Delhi: In a recent incident of cyber fraud, a Joint Commissioner of Police rank official fell into the trap of fraudsters and was duped of more than Rs 28,000.
Coincidentally, the very next day of the incident, Delhi Police arrested three accused in another case but during their interrogation, they were found to be involved in the fraud with the senior official.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (CYPAD) Anwesh Roy said that three accused were arrested by the cyber cell of North Delhi.
"The incident happened with the senior official on August 9. The North district has arrested the accused on August 10 but in another fraud case," said Roy. Further investigation revealed the accused were involved in the case of duping a senior police official. According to officials, after conducting raids in Tilak Nagar and Tagore Garden areas, one Vikas Jha (28), the kingpin of the gang, has been arrested along with his associates.
The team under ACP (operation) Jitender Patel led by SI Devender Chahar nabbed the fraudsters. "The gang used to create a web link and inquiry form and send messages to many people at a time with the help of bulk SMS providers bearing contents," police said.
Adding further, police said, "As soon as any customer fills the required details like name, e-mail id, password of e-mail id, mobile number, card number, CVV number, expiry date, date of birth and clicks on the submit button, the details were sent to the fraudsters' e-mail ID which is attached to that web link or enquiry form."
Hence with the help of given details, the cheaters easily used to do unauthorised withdrawal and illegal transactions from debit or credit cards of people on having OTP from e-mail ID of the customer.
The kingpin of the gang, Jha is a graduate and previously worked in the call centre and has good communication skills. He was found involved in many cases.