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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May 31,2020

Bareilly, May 31: The Bareilly couple who had made headlines in July last year when they eloped and apprehended a threat to their life from the girl's father who is a BJP MLA in UP, is back in the news.

Ajitesh, now son-in-law of BJP MLA Rajesh Mishra, and his friend were arrested on Saturday for allegedly thrashing a youth and snatching his cell phone after a minor road mishap in Prem Nagar area of Bareilly district.

Ajitesh is married to Sakshi, daughter of the MLA and the couple had eloped last year and got married.

According to police, the youth was on his way home after buying medicines for his friend's father when his bike hit Ajitesh's SUV. Ajitesh and his friend thrashed the youth and snatched his cell phone.

Police said Ajitesh and his friend Vaibhav Gangwar were booked under IPC section 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery) and other relevant sections.

Both have been sent to jail.

The complainant Deepanshu Maheshwari said, "When I overtook Ajitesh's car, he chased and waylaid me in the middle of the road. Thereafter, he and his friend thrashed me and snatched my phone. SHO Balbir Singh and his team rescued me."

The SHO told reporters, "We checked CCTV footage and spoke to witnesses only to find that Ajitesh and his friend had thrashed the youth. A case was registered under relevant sections and both were sent to jail after being produced before a magistrate on Saturday. The youth has been admitted to a hospital and his condition is stable."

The BJP MLA, incidentally, had snapped all his ties with his daughter Sakshi after she eloped and married Ajitesh.

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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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March 18,2020

Jaipur, Mar 18: Initially buried as per Islamic traditions, an unidentified man's body was exhumed and later cremated after he was found to be a Hindu in Rajasthan's Tonk district, police said.

The family members identified the body of Mahaveer Sahu on Tuesday, a day after the burial, as they stumbled upon photos of the deceased that had circulated on social media.

The man was brought to a government hospital by locals in an unconscious state on March 12 and he died on March 13, according to Purani Tonk police station SHO Shivlal.

The man was said to be a liquor addict and was found unconscious on the road, he added.

The body was kept at the mortuary for three days awaiting identification. Despite efforts to trace the next of kin, the identity could not be ascertained and members of Hindu and Muslim communities were brought in to take a decision, Shivlal said.

The community leaders presumed that he was a Muslim after examining the body and the burial took place as per Islamic funeral traditions on Monday, he added.

Meanwhile, Sahu's family members saw the photo of his body that had circulated on a WhatsAapp group and identified him later that day. They rushed to the hospital and then to the police station in the night where they were informed that the body had been buried.

“The body was exhumed with permission from the sub-divisional magistrate on Tuesday and handed over to the family members after proper identification. Members of the Muslim community led by an Imam were also present and gave in writing that they have no objection,” Shivlal said.

The body was later cremated by his family members.

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