The Delhi Police Crime Branch has claimed to have busted a gang utilizing FASTag to cheat people in the identify of activating credit card companies. The police mentioned they’ve arrested three males and seized luxurious autos and different SUVs from the possession of the accused.
According to the police, the accused cheated people of Rs 80 lakh in lower than a month.
The matter got here to mild whereas the police have been investigating a homicide case. Senior officers mentioned one of many gang members was dwelling with the homicide accused. The man, Mohd Zahid, 22, was caught with a laptop computer, cell phone, card swipe machine, and SIM cards. When he was questioned about his belongings, he couldn’t give a reply.
After being detained, Zahid instructed the police he’s a part of a gang that has been dishonest people on the pretext of credit card activation and different companies. He was tasked to handle the faux accounts of the kingpin Pawan Singh. He additionally revealed the identify of his affiliate, Ravi Mittal, who would create FASTag wallets utilizing the sufferer’s account particulars.
Crime Branch officers mentioned the gang used FASTag wallets to siphon off cash from the sufferer’s accounts and later divert it. The males focused clients of a number of banks and would name them posing as officers.
Ravindra Singh Yadav, Special Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch), mentioned, “The gang approached people who recently bought new credit cards. Mittal would create FASTag wallets while the other gang members would take the personal account details of the victim on the pretext of activating their credit card services or changing the limit of cards etc. Using personal details and OTPs, the accused linked the wallets to the bank account”.
Using the FASTag wallets, they might take cash from the checking account. “To get the money out of e-wallet, they tied up with certain petrol pump operators in order to encash the cheated amount using swipe machine,” mentioned Yadav.
The group performed raids and arrested the kingpin Singh and affiliate Mittal.
The police mentioned Zahid managed the faux accounts to obtain the cash whereas Mittal created the wallets and withdraw cash from swipe machines at petrol pumps in Haryana and Chandigarh. “Mittal used to receive cash from these fuel stations and transfer the amount to each of the members involved,” added Yadav.
During interrogation, Zahid revealed he labored as a journey agent and learnt net designing and different on-line functions. He met Singh, the gang chief, and began serving to him by offering faux accounts to assist him in his felony actions.
Singh, who labored for telecom and insurance corporations, met somebody concerned in stealing the information of credit card holders. He too began stealing information and contacted Zahid and different people he knew to assist run the gang. Mittal additionally labored with telecom corporations and got here in contact with Singh.
“They used FASTags because they said it was easy to put money and withdraw it using banking services,” mentioned the police.
