New Delhi: Amidst the ongoing tension of online cheats blackmailing innocent persons after obtaining their card details and looting money from their accounts, one more member of this gang was arrested for allegedly supplying complete data of credit cards to operators of fake call centers, on Thursday.
On the basis of this data, scam callers call innocent persons, giving an impression that they are calling from their bank and seek the required information necessary to transfer their money.
The incident came to light after a complaint was lodged by Shushil Chandra Rastogi, a resident of GK-1, alleging that someone called him to say that his Citibank credit card has been blocked and if he wants to reactivate it, some details are required. After giving the details, he found that Rs 1, 46,000 was transferred to payment merchants such as PayU and Paytm. Post this, a case was registered at a police station in Greater Kailash and investigation was handed over to sub-inspector Kuldeep Singh.
During the course of investigation, Ashish Kumar Jha, one of the accused, was arrested on April 4 from Jahangirpuri, Delhi. In 2013, he started tele-calling for selling health insurance via his own web-portal. For that purpose, he used to purchase data from data providers and this gave him the idea to indulge in online credit card cheating.
The accused then disclosed that he was running a call centre to gain access to their credit card details. This data was purchased by him from one Puran Gupta, who was also arrested.
