Hyderabad: Rachakonda police achieved a major breakthrough in the debit card frauds being engineered from Jamtara in Jharkhand by arresting the owner of a public utility centre in Gujarat who was working for the Jamtara gangs for commission. The cyber crime police arrested Ankith Prajapthi from Surat in Gujarat and brought him to Hyderabad on transit warrant.
Cybercrime inspector Md Riyazuddin said that in March, one Vinod Raj received a call from a person who claimed to be the manager of a bank who sought his debit card details for “updating” the card. After this, around Rs 50,000 was withdrawn from his bank account.
Police traced the mobile phone number to Jamtara, a hub of cyber fraudsters. Investigations revealed that the amount was transferred to e-wallets and was later used for recharging prepaid mobile phones used by Ankith Prajapthi. The police who traced him to Surat found that he was running a public utility centre and was working for a Jamtara-based fraudster named Rahul by taking a 20 per cent commission on each fraudulent transaction.
“Ankith used the money deposited in his e-wallet accounts for paying the bills of his customers and to recharge mobile phones and for other payments,” Riyazuddin said.
The police also found that two more cases were registered in Rachakonda, in which around Rs 2 lakh had been fraudulently transferred.
