A raid was conducted in Delhi’s Patel Nagar area on April 13, police said. (representative)
New Delhi:
The Delhi Police have arrested three fraudsters, including a former employee of Paisabazaar for defrauding an ICICI Bank customer.
According to the Delhi Police, complainant Harish alleged that he received a call on February 21 from a person claiming to be from ICICI Bank who asked him to help activate his ICICI Bank credit card. During the call, Harish was asked for the OTP and after some time he received a message about a transaction of Rs 1,45,000 on his mobile. Harish resides at Kali Bari, Mandir Marg, New Delhi.
A case was opened, and a team was put together to solve the case, the police said.
During the course of the investigation, the team worked on the technical aspects of the case and the money trail. The team searched for one suspect – Vivek Bind. However, his address could not be ascertained and the team was working on the ground and gathering information from sources about the suspect, police said.
According to the police, a raid was conducted in the Patel Nagar area of Delhi on April 13 and the team nabbed 23-year-old Vivek Bind, a resident of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
The accused revealed that he is a Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) graduate and worked in Paisabazaar, an online marketplace for financial products.
While in Paisabazaar, he used to obtain data of various bank customers who were applying for credit cards or who had recently received credit cards. Thereafter, he along with his two colleagues/roommates namely Vishal and Jackey used to call these customers unofficially on the pretext of helping them activate their cards, the police said.
Accordingly, they would request full login information from the customers and after logging into the account, they would get the money transferred to their bank accounts using the CRED app. The accused’s accomplices – Vishal and Jacky Yadav – were also arrested from Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh.
Twenty-two-year-old Vishal lives in Baliya in Uttar Pradesh and worked with ICICI Bank’s mortgage division. He used to transfer money from phished credit cards to his bank account using the CRED app on his mobile.
While Jacky (19) lives in Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh and is currently unemployed. He used to log into the credit card account on the laptop to transfer money from it, police said.
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