According to Indore police, cyber cell statement debit and credit card details of Indians account holder was on sale on a big scale.
Indore police discovered the sale after busting an international racket which was led by a Pakistan national and operated from Lahore.
The accused had a nexus with Pakistan and they use to sell the bank account detail along with debit and credit card with secret CVV number, phone numbers and email IDs in just ₹ 500.
Police come into active position when Jaykishan Gupta who is working with bank, filed a complaint about ₹ 72,401 which debited from his credit card on August 28.
Police trap where they had posed as a customer and bought debit card details of an Indore-based woman in exchange for Bitcoins. The trail led to the arrest of two members of the gang from Mumbai.
Police also held former HDFC Bank employees who were involved in selling data to them.
According to MP Cyber cell SP Jitendra Singh’s statement, “our cyber cell police investigation revealed that the card was used to buy air tickets for one Rajkumar Pillai of Mumbai. Pillai and his accomplice Ramprasad Nadar were rounded up. Pillai was a former employee of US-based IT service provider Cognizant and Nadar was employed with HDFC bank. This gang used the card details only on international websites where the OTP is not required”.
