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In a major break through a Team of Police Station- Cyber Crime busted a Fake Call Centre with the arrest of 04 accused from Patna, Bihar in Case FIR No 35 DATED 27.04.2024 U/S 419,420,467,468,468, 471, 120B IPC, PS – Cyber Crime, Chandigarh under the leadership of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP-Cyber, UT, Chandigarh, under close guidance of Sh. A Venkatesh, DSP/Cyber Crime& IT UT, Chandigarh and supervision of Inspector Sh. Ranjit Singh SHO Police Station-Cyber Crime, Sec.17, Chandigarh. 

It is submitted that above mentioned case was registered on the complaint of Rajbir Singh Rai from Chandigarh in which complainant stated that on dated 17.04.2024 he received a phone call from an unknown number 8274805122 and caller  posed himself as Gaurav Kumar employee of Indusind Credit Card and told complainant that if he will travel to foreign country then Rs.7500/- will be add in his bill and if he wants to stop this service.

After installing this app alleged caller asked to fill all details of complainant’s credit card and the same were filled by the complainant, after filling details by the complainant he received 03 deduction messages of transactions (49720.30/-, 80161.30/-, 60880.90/-) total 190762/- from his Indusind Credit Card. Again they called with another number 8274805122 posed himself as another employee of Indusind Credit Card and asked him  to again open the same apk file and fill all the details again but till then complainant got suspicious and got understood that he had been duped by fraudster and a case was registered

After installing this app alleged caller asked to fill all details of complainant’s credit card and the same were filled by the complainant, after filling details by the complainant he received 03 deduction messages of transactions (49720.30/-, 80161.30/-, 60880.90/-) total 190762/- from his Indusind Credit Card. Again they called with another number 8274805122 posed himself as another employee of Indusind Credit Card and asked him  to again open the same apk file and fill all the details again but till then complainant got suspicious and got understood that he had been duped by fraudster and a case was registered.

After registration of the above case during investigation the raiding party has been constituted to proceed further into investigation and on the basis of Technical support &  secret information, a raid was conducted in the area of East Krishna Nagar, Kheminchak Road, Patna, Bihar and from Room Number 401, Veena Complex, Kheminichak Road, East Krishna Nagar, Patna, Bihar; 04 person namely Shahidul S/O Noor Islam, Gautam Kumar S/O Montu Paswan, Bablu Kumar S/O Ranjit Paswan and Sarvan Kumar S/O Ram Kumar Singh. Further investigation in this matter is going on.

Modus Operandi:- The modus operandi of this case is that, scammers pretends to be the Bank officials and made a call on behalf of a particular bank. First they took the victim in goodfaith and then allure them with various kinds of scheme going on for their Credit cards.

Later, they ask them if they want to receive the offer or not and send them apk files to their whatsapp number. Fraudsters ask the recipient of the message to download the APK file and to fill up the details of the credit card. This method involves injecting malicious pps into mobiles as a result of which users receive files directly in their accounts and application are downloaded on the device on clicking on the files. The data obtained automatically sent to the fraudster, who uses it to commit crimes and steal money from their accounts.

KNOW THE ACCUSED: Shahidul S/O Noor Islam, R/O #145, Taimur Nagar, I.G.Camp- 2, New Friends Colony, Delhi, 25 Years 8th Pass, Gautam Kumar S/O Montu Paswan, R/O VillMahmadpur, Distt. Patna, Bihar, 24 Years 12th Pass,  Bablu Kumar S/O Ranjit Paswan R/O VillMahmadpur, Distt. Patna, Bihar
25 Years 12th Pass, 4 Sarvan Kumar S/O Ram Kumar Singh, R/O VillPhulma, Po. Nemdarganj, Distt- Navada, Bihar, 26 Years 12th Pass

RECOVERY:  Mobile Phones 42,  Sim Cards 06

Further, the recovered data is being shared with I4C to get the same analyzed to reveal Inter-state linkages at central level to curb Cyber Crime all over the India.