LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Ranchi, April 8: The CID has arrested four cyber criminals who duped in tune of several lakhs from several bank account holders with the help of fake apps.
The CID team took action on the instructions of DG Anurag Gupta. Among those arrested include Mohan Sao from Giridih and Sapan Kumar Sinha from Hazaribagh besides Gopal Singh and Amar Pratap Singh from Jharkhand capital.
As many as 11 mobile phones, 25 SIM cards, 14 cheque books and passbooks, 19 ATM cards, 3 laptops, and Rs 21.55 thousand cash besides many other items have been recovered from their possession.
According to Gupta, cyber criminals used to target account holders of HDFC, ICICI, SBI, PNB. Taking the pretext of updating KYC, they used to send SMS of a phishing URL to the customers through a fake Internet Banking Android application. On receiving the information about the same, the CID swung into action getting instructions from DG Anurag Gupta.
Explaining the modus oprandi, Gupta said criminals used to send SMS reading “Dear User Your HDFC account will be suspended today. Please update yours. Click here http:// surl.li/ gdiig to link PAN with Aadhaar.”
“By clicking on the link given in this SMS, the fake internet banking of the bank is installed in the phone. By opening the application and logging in to internet banking, cyber criminals commit fraud by securing user ID, password etc. data related to internet banking,” he said.
CID found a lot of data related to the incident in the mobiles and laptops recovered from the arrested cyber criminals.
The arrested cyber criminals also used to cheat by creating pornography, dating websites and Facebook pages and also by putting ads in them. They used to put fake mobile numbers on this website and Facebook page for dating boys and girls and for escort service. When people contact each other on the given mobile, they cheat them in the name of registration and other advertisement fees.
