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Credit card fraud: Delhi resident duped of Rs 1.46 lakh; data of over 1 crore people leaked

Source: Zee News

New Delhi: Amidst the ongoing tension of online cheats blackmailing innocent persons after obtaining their card details and looting money from their accounts, one more member of this gang was arrested for allegedly supplying complete data of credit cards to operators of fake call centers.

On the basis of this data, scam callers call innocent persons, giving an impression that they are calling from their bank and seek the required information necessary to transfer their money.

The incident came to light after a complaint was lodged by Shushil Chandra Rastogi, a resident of GK-1, New Delhi, alleging that someone called him to say that his Citibank credit card has been blocked and if he wants to reactivate it, some details are required.

After giving the details, he found that Rs 1.46 lakh was transferred to payment merchants such as PayU, Paytm, Olacabs, Mobikwik, and Vodafone bill.

Post this, a case was registered at a police station in Greater Kailash and investigation was handed over to Sub-Inspector Kuldeep Singh.

During the course of investigation, Ashish Kumar Jha, one of the accused,…

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