Delhi Police bust Jamtara phishing gang

new delhi: Delhi Police on Wednesday said that they have busted Jamtara based gang involved in cheating people. According to police, victim, in one of the cases, was having some issues with the Axis Bank, so in order to contact the Axis Bank customer care, he Googled and found a customer care number of

Axis Bank.

Police said that he dialled the number by his mobile phone but could not get any response.

Meanwhile, he received a call from a number, who represented himself as Axis Bank Customer Care Executive and asked the victim to click a link sent via a text

message.

"Victim did as per instructions of pseudo Customer Care Executive and the very next moment found Rs 63,800 deducted from his account," DCP (Rohini) PK

Mishra said.

"During the investigation, it revealed through the parsing of the bank account statement of the victim that one Paytm account was used to transfer the money. On scrutiny of the statement of Paytm account, another Paytm account surfaced,"

he said.

The IP logs of these accounts, KYC statements were procured from Paytm. A perusal of documents, brought in startling revelations and facts as around 180 bank accounts were used to further channelise the money across latitudes and longitudes

of country.

During the further probe, all the accused were nabbed from different parts (Delhi and other states).