Hyderabad: 2 held for posing as bank officials; passbooks seized

Hyderabad: Cyber Crime Police here arrested two men for assisting inter-state fraudsters by posing as bank officials and conning the gullible by claiming that their ATM card is blocked. Police seized bank passbooks and mobiles from them.

The arrested have been identified as Subhash Kumar, 26, from Jharkhand and Manoj Kumar Ball, 20, from Dhanbad, who were assisting an inter-state gang that was involved in obtaining debit/credit card details from bank customers by posing themselves as executives and officials of banks. 

“They call the customers and inform them that their ATM cards and bank accounts are blocked and to unblock it, they are required to give all details and credentials. Then these fraudsters used to transfer the money in e-commerce wallets and from there they transferred amounts to various bank accounts” DCP, Central Crime Station, Avinash Mohanty said.

The arrest was made based on the complaints received from Mohd. Samiullah Khan of New Bowenpally and K. Kamakshi of Masab Tank stating that they received calls from unknown persons posing as bank officials who collected their debit card details and OTP numbers and made online transactions of Rs.89,986 and Rs.97,547 respectively. Accordingly two separate cases were registered at Cyber Crime Police Station, Hyderabad and investigation began.

They were brought to Hyderabad on transit warrant and were remanded to judicial custody.