Man arrested for credit card fraud
The police arrested a cheat who allegedly stole data of 30,000 credit card holders of a bank and made transactions of up to `2 crores.
A senior police official said the accused, Raju Tevar, was arrested from Mumbai. He allegedly used the credit card holders’ data and made online transactions of `2 crores.
The police received a complaint from one Ms Abhaya Srivastava, who said that she got a call about an online transaction being made using her credit card.
“The caller claimed to be calling from the bank and asked her to give details of her credit card so that he can block the card and refund the amount. After giving details, she started getting messages that up to `44,911 were spent from her card,” the official said.
An FIR was lodged in this respect.
A police team visited Mumbai as the credit card was used to make payment of electricity bill to Maharashtra District Electricity Board.
The police got a tip-off that Raju came to collect telephone bills representing himself as an agent of a mobile company from a shopkeeper who used to collect bills of local residents for small service charge. He offered 10 per cent discount to the shopkeeper.
The police put his phone number on technical surveillance and located it in Palghar, Thane.
A team was immediately dispatched to Thane, Maharashtra.
“We did not have his photograph. We got his picture from a social networking site, made local inquires in Mumbai and nabbed him,” said the police official.
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