Credit card fraud: Data of over 1 crore people leaked!

April 14, 2017

New Delhi, Apr 14: 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.

CreditOn 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, was arrested on April 4 from Jahangirpuri, Delhi.

In 2013, he started tele-calling for selling health insurance via his own web-portal.

For that purpose, he used to purchase data from data providers and this gave him the idea to indulge in online credit card cheating.

The accused then disclosed that he was running a call centre to gain access to their credit card details.

This data was purchased by him from one Puran Gupta, who had provided the required data of credit cards to him.

Subsequently, on Monday, Gupta was arrested from his office in South Ganesh Nagar.

On sustained interrogation, the 33-year old Gupta disclosed that he used to provide data/ details of different categories/profiles of persons as required by his clients.

In 2010 he created a firm called "first step services and solutions".

This firm was created for data collection, data entry, data market research and online promotion.

The data contained in his laptop as well as his email has been analysed and found that he is in possession of data of almost one crore people.

He has stored the data in different folders with different categories as per requirement of his clients.

With regard to credit card data, the miscreants use this to target persons and convince them that they are legitimate bank authorised callers.

When they call a target, they state the card number, card holder name and date of birth, so that the target is tricked into confidence in believing them.

The main supplier of credit card data to him from Mumbai is yet to be arrested.

Puran Gupta has been sent to Police custody while further investigation is carried on.

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June 5,2020

Jun 5: A young woman was forced to drink liquor allegedly by her husband after which he along with four friends assaulted, burnt her with cigarette butts and raped her in front of her five year-old son, police said on Friday.

All the five, who were taken into custody earlier, have been arrested. The shocking incident occurred in the state capital last night.

The incident came to light after the 25-year-old woman, approached police and complained against her husband and his four friends.

A case has been registered against the five accused for kidnapping, assaulting and gangrape.

Since the incident took place in front of the child, a case under Protection of children from sexual offices Act has also been charged against the accused.

Meanwhile, State health and family welfare minister K K Shailaja asked the state police chief to take stringentction against the culprits as "such cruelty happened in front of her child."

The Kerala State Women's Commission on its own registered a case and sought report from the Thiruvananthapuram Rural SP.

She managed to escape from there and pleaded for help from a young man, who saw in heran inebriatedstate, and took her to her house and informed police.

The man later told some television channels that she was crying, had injuries on her face and pleaded for help.

Police have recorded the statement of the woman, who was admitted to a government hospital here and later discharged.

She had also stated that the men had tortured her using cigarette butts.

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May 26,2020

New Delhi, May 26: A massive fire broke out on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday in the slums of the Tughlaqabad area in south east Delhi in which over 250 shanties were gutted, however, no one was injured, fire officials said.

Atul Garg, Chief Fire Officer, told IANS, "We came to know about the fire in the slums around 12.15 a.m. following which 28 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. And the fire was brought under control by 4 a.m."

He said, the Tughalaqbad slums have over 500 shanties, out of which over 250 have been destroyed in the fire.

He said, it took time for the fire tenders to reach the spot as it was on the hills, but the fire was doused within four hours and by 8 a.m. cooling off procedure has also been completed.

When asked if there is any casualty in the incident, he said, "No injury or casualty has been reported."

He also said that as of now the actual reason for the fire is not known. "But we are trying to find out the reason of the fire," Garg added.

South East Deputy Commissioner of Police R.P. Meena said, "In the night it seemed that almost 500 shanties were gutted. However, in the morning it became clear that only 250 shanties have been gutted in fire."

He said, the South East district police after receiving the call also rushed the ambulances and the local police team in the area for rescue operation. Meena further said that very few people were residing in the shanties, and the people came out of their shanties after the fire broke out in one of them.

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May 19,2020

Bareilly (UP), May 19: Samajwadi leader Chhotelal Diwakar and his son, Sunil Diwakar, were shot dead in broad daylight in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. The entire incident was caught on camera.

The murder was apparently a fallout of a dispute over laying of a road under MGNREGA.

Chhotelal Diwakar had contested the 2017 assembly elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket.

Superintendent of Police, (SP), Sambhal, Yamuna Prasad, said, "Some work was being carried out under MGNREGA due to which some dispute happened. Two people have been shot dead. We will reach the spot of the incident to find more details."

According to his family members, Diwakar and his son had gone for a walk in the fields when the assailants came on a motorbike and after a brief altercation, shot them dead. They fled on foot, leaving their motorbike behind.

A large number of SP workers reached the village soon after the news of the double murder spread.

SP Yamuna Prasad who reached the spot that falls under Behjoi police station, soon after the murders, said that a manhunt has been launched for the assailants. He said that further investigations were underway and the bodies have been sent for post mortem.

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