Bengaluru: The cyber crime police have arrested two more conmen for duping businessmen under the pretext of providing them business leads.
The accused are the members of a gang that fraudulently withdrew money from their clients’ account using an app.
The accused have been identified as Kamalakar (26) and Vinod N (26) residents of Kaval Byrasandra in R.T. Nagar.
The prime accused in the case Raghvendra (24), a resident of Hosa Road on Hosur main road and Rakesh Kumar (24), a resident of HSR Layout 7th stage, part of the gang, were recently arrested by the police.
The police said that Kamalakar and Vinod worked along with Raghvendra and Rakesh and were arrested on Tuesday based on the details provided by Raghvendra and Rakesh.
The police approached the accused posing as businessmen wanting to get their service.
Police said the accused used to secretly collect debit and credit card numbers of the clients and then get OTPs from their mobile phones by installing MySMS app.
The gang operated under a fake company Lead Management System from Hosa Road junction on Hosur main road. They used to contact car dealers, earth mover services, logistic dealers and solar dealers after getting their mobile numbers from Just Dial.
The gang would approach the clients and offer their service to provide them business leads on a commission basis and would convince them to get themselves registered by paying a fee of Rs 200 online.
The accused used a Point of Sale (POS) swiping machine, which they had managed to get from SBI by providing the company documents, to trap the clients.
The accused would ask the clients to hand over their debit or credit card to swipe in the machine. One of the accused would keep the client busy in conversation, while the other one would click pictures of the cards both front and back.
The other accused would get the client’s mobile phone saying he would download their company’s app for their convenience.
Along with the company’s app, the accused would also install ‘MySMS’ app which reads messages and allows the same to be read online. They would then initiate a transaction and access the OTP online.
The arrest was made following a complaint from a resident of Nagarbhavi whom the accused had duped of Rs 75,000 on August 30.
