ONE PERSON WAS CHEATED IN THE NAME OF ACTIVATION OF SBI CREDIT CARD AND ONE DUPED SAYING  THEY ARE KNOWN 

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In another breakthrough the three accused in Case FIR No. 206 dated 10.08.2021 U/S 420, 120B IPC PS- 39, Chandigarh, have been arrested by Police Station Cyber Crime, Sec.17, Chandigarh under overall supervision of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP/Cyber Crime, UT Chandigarh, close guidance of Sh. A Venkatesh, DANIPS, DSP/PS-CC& IT, UT, Chandigarh and leadership of Inspector Ranjit Singh, SHO, PS-Cyber Crime, Chandigarh

The present case has been registered on the complaint of Sh. Paramjit Singh R/o #3431, Sector 38 D Chandigarh in which he alleged that he applied for a SBI Credit card and waiting for the card activation for many days and in this regard he also talked to customer care number. In this regard, he received a call for verification and the caller presented himself as State Bank of India Credit card employee.

The caller asked to complainant about his existing credit card of HSBC and the same were supplied to the caller i.e. CVV number, OTP. As soon as the complainant realized his mistake, the caller disconnected the call. After that the fraud person made three fraudulent transactions of Rs. 48,480/-, Rs. 98101/- & Rs. 98101/- from his HSBC Bank credit card..

Further during investigation, the alleged bank accounts details have been scrutinized and found that the alleged money was credited in Rajesh Kumar account. Further Call details record of accused person have been taken and scrutinized and on the basis of their location traced, a raid was conducted at Firozabad (UP), from where both the accused namely 1). Rajesh Kumar S/o Lt. Sh. Bhag Chand R/o Tapa Khurd, Near Syedd (Per Mazar) Modi Nagar, Firozabad Utter Pradesh - Age 21 Years and 2). Avdesh Kumar S/o Nettarpal Singh R/o Tapa Khurd, New Avash, Per Mazar, Modi Nagar, Firozabad Utter Pradesh - Age 24 Years, have been arrested according to procedure and produced before the Hon’ble court on 01.1.202 and their 01 days police custody have been taken. Further, the investigation of the said case is going on.

MODUS OPERANDI: The modus operandi of this case is that the complainant had applied for a SBI Credit card and waiting for the card activation for many days and in this regard he also talked to customer care number. In this regard, he received a call for verification and the caller presented himself as State Bank of India Credit card employee. The caller asked to complainant about his existing credit card of HSBC and the same were supplied to the caller i.e. CVV number, OTP. As soon as the complainant realized his mistake, the caller disconnected the call. After that the fraud person made three fraudulent transactions of Rs. 48,480/-, Rs. 98101/- & Rs. 98101/- from his HSBC Bank credit card.

In an other case FIR No. 48 dated 30.09.2022 U/S419, 420, 120B IPC PS- CC, Chandigarh, an accused Md. Ali Rehman S/o Md Muzibur Rehman R/o Data Kambal Sah Mazar Nai Bazar Musahri Muzaffarpur Bihar. Age – 26 Years, have been arrested.

The present case has been registered on the complaint of Mr. Prafulla Mohan Sinha R/o #1430 Sector 40B Chandigarh in which he alleged that he received a WhatsApp call from number +1(605)2043371 and posed himself as Friend of victim from Australia. The caller told that he has a friend namely Jaspal Singh in Kolkata (WB) and his wife is admitted in a hospital and her operation is going on. He has urgent need of money, and I am sending you Rs. 18,00,000/- and asked for victim’s account number to send money.

The complainant sent him photo of his Cheque Book through Whatsapp and he received a receipt of Rs. 18 lacs on WhatsApp and asked to victim that the money will be credited in 24 hours in his account. Further he told that his friend Jaspal Singh will call you.

MODUS OPERANDI

The modus operandi of this case is that fraudsters calls/messages to people specially of Punjab through WhatsApp, who believe that they are known to them living abroad i.e. Australia, Canada, UK etc. The caller show the reason of urgency/emergency and request for money. Due to which, the people fall in pray by cheater and transfer the money in given account. In this way, the people are duped by the unknown caller by impersonating as their family member, relatives & know in abroad.

Further he received call who introduced himself as Jaspal and shared a SBI account and asked him to deposit Rs. 250000/-. Further the victims deposited the above said amount in SBI account through RTGS on 29.09.2022. Later he again received call from Jaspal and urgently requested for more money i.e. Rs. 6 Lacs and shared a new account of SBI and he deposited the same in the given account.

In the same way, he again received call twice from same number and he deposited Rs. 250000/- and Rs. 250000/- in two accounts of SBI and shared receipt of all transactions through WhatsApp. After that he called to his friend’s number where it came to know that he was duped of Rs. 13,50,000/- by the unknown caller on the name of his friend living in Australia.

During investigation, the alleged bank account details has been scrutinized and found that the alleged money was credited in Md Muzibur Rehman account. Further Call details record of accused person have been taken and scrutinized and on the basis of their location traced, a raid was conducted at Muzaffarpur Bihar and on 29.10.2022 the accused Md. Ali Rehman S/o Md Muzibur Rehman R/o Data Kambal Sah Mazar Nai Bazar Musahri Muzaffarpur Bihar has been arrested from Jail Chowk (Muzarffarpur) Bihar according to procedures, according to procedure and produced before the Hon’ble court on 01.1.202 and his 02 day police custody has been taken. Further, the investigation of the said case is going on.

MODUS OPERANDI :The modus operandi of this case is that fraudsters calls/messages to people specially of Punjab through WhatsApp, who believe that they are known to them living abroad i.e. Australia, Canada, UK etc. The caller show the reason of urgency/emergency and request for money. Due to which, the people fall in pray by cheater and transfer the money in given account. In this way, the people are duped by the unknown caller by impersonating as their family member, relatives & know in abroad.