Ujjain: The cyber cell police on Monday claimed to have busted a hi-tech gang, which was instrumental in illegally using money of people by withdrawing money through online transactions. Cyber cell in charge Dipika Shinde, informed that on investigating a complaint of victim Jaikishan Gupta, working at Bank of India, Agar-Malwa they had discovered a new format of cheating through online transactions. Police arrested, Ramkumar Pillai and Ramprasad Nadar, both residents of Mumbai, who during interrogation, said they had hired a website based abroad and used to debit money from the accounts of people through online transactions. Both the accused are qualified persons with a sound family background.
The modus operandi of the gang-in-question came to fore, when Jaikishan Gupta got a SMS on his mobile phone that Rs 72, 000 has been debited from his credit card by using illegal online transactions from abroad on August 27. According to the cyber cell police, the accused had used credit cards of different banks, by making payments through a website located abroad. Through these credit cards, they did shopping without giving any information to the customer and the customer would get information about the fraud only when he received a SMS of debit.
The police recovered more than two dozen credit cards of various banks of the country from the possession of both accused. Likewise, mobile phones, passports, laptops and Adhar cards were also recovered from them. After cheating people through online transactions, the accused also reportedly toured Bangkok, Thailand, Dubai, Hongkong, Malaysia, etc, many times.
