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Man duped bank customers, then gave them jeans

The accused, who had opened a call centre as well as a company that manufactured jeans, would pose as bank employees and offer perks to people so they would share the one-time password, sent to their mobile phone.

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A database of names for Rs 5,000, six employees and five months. That’s all it took for an LLB graduate to allegedly cheat more than 300 people by making vishing, or voice phishing, calls to several lakh people and making them part with their bank details. Police have now arrested three people, including the alleged mastermind of the gang, Vijay Kumar, who bought databases containing details of 10 lakh people, and targeted them by making vishing calls. The accused, who had opened a call centre as well as a company that manufactured jeans, would pose as bank employees and offer perks to people so they would share the one-time password, sent to their mobile phone.

Each victim lost Rs 9,000 in cash after they shared their OTP. For good measure, the accused would the victims jeans, so they would not file a complaint in anticipation of more perks.

According to DCP (west), police got to know about Kumar and his associates after an complaint by SBI Cards and Payment Services Private Limited on October 13. The district cyber cell team, headed by ACP Jagjit Sangwan, eventually tracked down a fraudulent transaction to the tune of Rs 30 lakh from bank accounts belonging to M/S India Mart.com.

What made the investigators curious was that many victims were promised Rs 8,000 and two new jeans. “We tracked down the bank accounts and the address of the company’s office. Two weeks after the complaint was registered, we managed to track down the source of the vishing calls to a call centre in Janakpuri,” said an investigator from the district cyber cell (west).

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