New Delhi, Dec 12 (FN Representative) Two men, who were posing themselves as Bank officers, were arrested for allegedly duping people by making fake promises to increase credit card limit, the police said on Friday. The Cyber Police Station of North Delhi, busted a gang of online fraud. The duo, identified as Anant alias Aman and Rahul, used to obtain card details and OTP, without taking it directly from the victims and transferred cheated money on different wallets, said Sagar Singh Kalsi, DCP, North Delhi. The police said the accused hacked the Email ID of the victim by clicking forget my OTP and tricked the victim over call to click Yes on Google notification for unknown login.
According to the police, a complaint on Ministry of Home Affairs Cyber Crime Portal from a woman was received on October 22, wherein she alleged that she received a call from a mobile number on October 22, where the caller introduced him as executive of a Bank Credit Card section and offered her a scheme to increase Credit Card limit of her card to Rs 2 lakh, following which she gave caller to her credit card number and immediately Rs 96000 got debited from her Credit Card. The complainant alleged that no OTP was shared despite that money was transferred from her Credit Card, said Kalsi. The police said, after receiving the complaint technical analysis of call details and bank details were done and it was found that Credit Cards were transferred to online wallets. Detail of the alleged mobile number was analyzed after that the accused was identified as Anant Chaudhary alias Aman, resident of Uttam Nagar and Rahul, resident of Najafgarh. During the interrogation they told police that they called the victim on her mobile phone and secured Credit Card Details in the name of limit increase. They also asked her to register her email ID with Credit Card and tried to login by forgetting the password option. Then both directed the victim to accept Google notification received on mobile phone for new login and thereby succeeded in login to the Gmail account of complainant and secured OTP for transaction. They allegedly transferred money in two different digital wallets, said Kalsi.