Police said that on April 13, raids were conducted in Delhi’s Patel Nagar area. (Representative)
New Delhi:
Delhi Police has arrested three fraudsters, including a former employee of Paisabazaar, for duping an ICICI Bank customer.
According to Delhi Police, the 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, OTP was asked from Harish and after some time a transaction message of Rs 1,45,000 came on his mobile. Harish is a resident of Kali Bari, Mandir Marg, New Delhi.
Police said that a case was registered and a team was constituted to solve the matter.
During the investigation, the team worked on the technical aspects of the case and the money trail. The team nabs a suspect Vivek Bind. However, he could not be traced and the team worked on the ground and gathered information about the suspect from sources, police said.
According to the police, on April 13, a raid was conducted in Delhi’s Patel Nagar area and the team nabbed 23-year-old Vivek Bind, a resident of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
The accused disclosed that he is a Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) graduate and was working at Paisabazaar, an online marketplace for financial products.
While at Paisabazaar, he used to obtain data of various bank customers who had applied for credit cards or who had recently received credit cards. Then, he along with two of his associates/roommates, namely Vishal and Jackky, used to make informal calls to these customers on the pretext of helping them activate their cards, the police said.
Accordingly, they will ask for complete login credentials from the customers and after logging into the account, will transfer funds to their bank accounts using the CRED app. The accused’s accomplices – Vishal and Jackky Yadav – were also arrested from Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh.
Twenty-two-year-old Vishal hailed from Ballia, Uttar Pradesh and was working in the home loan department of ICICI Bank. He used to transfer money from the Fish credit card to his bank account using the CRED app on his mobile.
While Jackie (19) is a resident of Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh and is currently unemployed. Police said he used to log into the credit card account on his laptop to transfer money.
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