Cyber fraud case: There is a rapid increase in cases of cyber fraud in the country. Cyber fraudsters are now using the advancing technology. Recently a case came to light from UP, where the police exposed a gang that used to defraud people of lakhs of rupees from their accounts without their knowledge.
These gangs used to easily take possession of people’s cheque books, signatures, mobile numbers and important bank related documents. Now the big question arises that how can money be withdrawn from our bank account without giving OTP. Let’s know about it.
Cyber fraud has been done in many states
According to the Senior Superintendent of Police, this cyber fraud gang was carried out using cloning cheques. This gang was active in many parts of the country apart from Delhi, MP, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and has made many people their victims.
The police have recovered 33 SIM cards, 12 cheque books, 20 pass books, 14 open cheques and 42 mobile phones from them. The members of this gang used to keep a Delhi Police cap on the dashboard of their cars to avoid security checking.
According to the police, some of the people arrested were associated with banks and some were agents of telecom companies. In this way, this fraud was being carried out with the help of each other.
How does this gang work?
This gang used to steal the customer’s cheque book very cleverly and make it disappear before it reached the bank. When the customer filed a complaint regarding this, the old cheque book was cancelled and a new cheque book was issued. In this way, the gang got all the details of the new cheque book.
The gang used to remove the old details from the checkbook using a chemical and print new details and withdraw money using the customer’s fake signature. In this way, the customer said that he did not receive any message from the bank and the money has been deducted from the bank. Later, when the customer updated his passbook, he came to know that Rs 15 lakh had been withdrawn from his bank account.
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