Faridabad Police busts interstate cyberfraud gang

Faridabad | Thursday | 6th January, 2022

Summary:

Faridabad, Jan 6 (PTI) Faridabad Police has busted an interstate gang arresting seven of its members for allegedly duping over 180 people across 21 states in a credit card fraud, a senior police officer here said on Thursday.

The accused posed as SBI employees and elicited credit card information from unsuspecting customers.

Police has recovered Rs 22.60 lakh in cash, 35 mobiles, 109 SIM cards and 15 ATMs from the possession of the accused.

The accused were identified as Sonveer, Rahul, a native of Bhind in Madhya Pradesh, Aman, a native of Itawah in Uttar Pradesh, Shakti, a native of Bihar, and Pankaj and Abdullah, both from Delhi, who were arrested from the city"s Uttam Nagar area.

Subhan, a native of Farrukhabad in UP, was arrested from his state.

Arora said the accused would buy customers’ data from Just Dial website and call them up using a toll free number posing as SBI executives.