SURAT: How much money would the gangs operating in Jamtara, now infamous as India’s cybercrime epicentre, be making? One can only imagine the astronomical amount if told that just one of the several gangs pocketed Rs one lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh every day through credit card frauds.The revelation of their daily earnings came during the preliminary questioning of three people arrested by the Sachin GIDC police on Tuesday.
The police said the arrest of cyber crooks Sanjay Mandal, Vikas alias Vicky Vinod Shukla, and Momu Zamil alias Mujju Ayub Malek helped them crack three cybercrime cases lodged in Gujarat, Punjab, and Telangana.
They were caught on Monday near the GIDC checkpost following a tip-off and revealed their modus operandi during interrogation.The fraudsters would steal the details of credit card holders and send them a link to convert their rewards for cash.
When the cardholder clicked the link, the conmen posing as bank executives would ask for bank details to transfer the money in their accounts.Rajesh Parmar, deputy commissioner of police (DCP), zone-6, said, “After illegally procuring the data of credit card holders, they would send messages to the customers informing them that their reward points were expiring.
The trio would send links to people who wanted to redeem the points.
Once the victims filled up the Google form with bank details, they would siphon the money and transfer it to the accounts handled by their masterminds Shankar Mandal and Vicky Mandal in Jharkhand.”Parmar said the arrest of the trio has helped crack undetected crimes registered in Sultan Bazar police station in Telangana, Civil Lines police stations in Punjab’s Patiala, and Gandhigram police station of Rajkot city.The gang members also offered 10% commission to people who would give them credit card details of any person.
Malek and Shukla would transfer the money to the masterminds after deducting their commission.Police found that people from all across the country have been cheated in big numbers by this gang.
“The scale of the sheer number of agents and gang members involved is very high as they would give commission to all those giving them the leads.
Using commission as a tool, they created a massive countrywide network,” said JR Chaudhary, inspector, Sachin GIDC police station.They were handed over the Rajkot police for further investigation.
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