Hyderabad: Impersonator gang cheats bank of Rs 8.2 lakh

Hyderabad: Four fraudsters who were cheating  bank officials by pretending to be car showroom owners were arrested by the Cyberabad cyber crime police on Tuesday.

The police was acting on a complaint filed by a senior branch manager of a nationalised bank who was duped by the gang of Rs 8.2 lakh.

An investigator said, “the complainant received a call from an unidentified person impersonating the owner of an automobile showroom. The bank official was tricked and transferred the amount into the caller’s account through Real Time Gross Settlement”.

The bank staff later approached the management of the car showroom from which they purportedly rece-ived the call, and were told that no one had made the call. That is when they realised they had been deceived, and went to the police.

Speaking about the scam, Cyberabad cyber crime inspector K. Srinivas said, the accused Arun Kumar was the mastermind. “He  collects details of car showrooms including banking details by posing as a customer.

He then approaches the bank as the showroom owner and promises huge amounts of money as fixed deposits. After gaining their confidence, he gets them to transfer money to his account, the inspector said.