AHMEDABAD: An e-wallet company “Easy Pay”, which has its office on SG Road in Ahmedabad, had lodged a complaint with the cybercrime cell alleging that several banks reported money from their customers’ bank accounts were being siphoned off by some of their agents. The complaint states that 91 customers have been cheated of Rs 18.94 lakh, though no Aadhaar card data or fingerprint was given to anyone by any of the victims.
Cybercrime cell officials said based on the complaint they tracked down one Prashant Shah of Chandkheda who had obtained Aadhaar card data and fingerprints of people from Bhind in Madhya Pradesh. They had been told they would get LED bulbs free on furnishing this data.
“The data was also sold to cyber criminals in UP, Haryana and Delhi by Shah. “He used to sell the data for between Rs 150 and Rs 300 per lead,” a senior cybercrime cell official said.
Cybercrime sources said based on this data Shah, became an agent of the e-wallet company by providing Aadhaar card data and fingerprints for KYC and randomly matched this with customers of “Easy Pay” to access their bank accounts and siphoned off their money,” said a cyber cell official.
The FIR states that the e-wallet company only make agents after verifying their Aadhaar card details, name and mobile number and fingerprints. “But in this case the Aadhaar card data was taken from people in Bhind who had accounts in the banks which reported the cheating,” added a cop.