In a shocking revelation, police investigations have shown that bank account information of over 1 crore Indians were being sold by crooks. Every individual's detail was being sold at a meagre price of Rs 10 or 20 paisa.
According to a report by The Economic Times, the cops managed to nab a key player while investigating a case of an 80-year-old woman from Greater kailash in south Delhi. She had lost Rs 1.46 lakh from her credit card.
Subsequently, the cops found the stolen data of nearly one crore people, claimed DCP(south east ) Romil Baaniya. The data contained name of the customer, card details, date of birth and mobile numbers. Data of senior citizens were most sought after, the report adds.
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Puran Gupta, the prime accused has revealed he used to sold bulk data of around 50,000 people for anything between Rs 10,000- 20,000. A Mumbai-based supplier reportedly provided the data to him who is yet to be arrested.
Using this data, the culprits would pose as representatives and convince people to share details such as the CVV number and OTP, and use them to withdraw money.
Last year, Delhi Police had busted a racket of fake call centers with the arrest of three persons and seized 210 SIM cards of various service providers, one laptop, and Rs 4.35 lakh in cash from their possession in Delhi.
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According to an India Today report, there are many fake call centres with professional and technical staff functioning in the national Capital and neighbouring Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad and Haryana.
Cops claim that crooks are well-equipped in the Capital and are becoming high-tech to sound more professional.
