MUMBAI: Online fraud knows no barriers, not even those odd criminals dare not pass. Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Barve narrowly escaped falling sufferer to online crime about two years in the past, when a gang tried to extract his non-public data to hack into his wage account. It was handiest last week that the primary arrest was made in the case.
According to Barve, on July 11, 2017, he gained a call from a person who claimed to be an executive of the State Bank of India (SBI). The guy instructed Barve that his bank card had been blocked by way of the financial institution and to revive it, he needed to mention confidential main points like his 16-digit card quantity, CVV, and PIN. Barve stated that being acutely aware of online financial institution fraud, he did not expose any non-public main points and disconnected the decision.
The officer, who at the time headed the anti-corruption bureau as its director basic, lodged an FIR with the cyber police, alleging that an unknown individual referred to as him and tried to extract his KYC main points to hack into his SBI account. The cyber police began a probe.
In the primary breakthrough in the case, the cyber police on Friday arrested a 19-year-old school student from Jharkhand, who, the police declare, is a member of "Nigerian-style online hackers". The accused, identified as Ashish Kumar Jha, is a native of Alkusha district, Jharkhand, and has been booked beneath IPC sections for cheating and prison breach of trust, prison conspiracy, and making an attempt to dedicate an offence, and beneath the Information Technology Act.
Police stated that in keeping with Jha's cell phone's International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEI), he was arrested. Police say Jha used that telephone to name Barve on July 11, 2017. But Jha's lawyer, Tarun Sharma, stated, "My client has been framed. He has been arrested purely on the basis of his mobile phone, but we are trying to convince the police that he brought it second-hand from the grey market. A gang might have used it to make calls to defraud people and later discarded it."
In the past, a number of policemen have fallen prey to online fraud. In 2014, the Axis Bank accounts of 37 policemen had been hacked and their money withdrawn from ATMs in foreign international locations.
According to Barve, on July 11, 2017, he gained a call from a person who claimed to be an executive of the State Bank of India (SBI). The guy instructed Barve that his bank card had been blocked by way of the financial institution and to revive it, he needed to mention confidential main points like his 16-digit card quantity, CVV, and PIN. Barve stated that being acutely aware of online financial institution fraud, he did not expose any non-public main points and disconnected the decision.
The officer, who at the time headed the anti-corruption bureau as its director basic, lodged an FIR with the cyber police, alleging that an unknown individual referred to as him and tried to extract his KYC main points to hack into his SBI account. The cyber police began a probe.
In the primary breakthrough in the case, the cyber police on Friday arrested a 19-year-old school student from Jharkhand, who, the police declare, is a member of "Nigerian-style online hackers". The accused, identified as Ashish Kumar Jha, is a native of Alkusha district, Jharkhand, and has been booked beneath IPC sections for cheating and prison breach of trust, prison conspiracy, and making an attempt to dedicate an offence, and beneath the Information Technology Act.
Police stated that in keeping with Jha's cell phone's International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEI), he was arrested. Police say Jha used that telephone to name Barve on July 11, 2017. But Jha's lawyer, Tarun Sharma, stated, "My client has been framed. He has been arrested purely on the basis of his mobile phone, but we are trying to convince the police that he brought it second-hand from the grey market. A gang might have used it to make calls to defraud people and later discarded it."
In the past, a number of policemen have fallen prey to online fraud. In 2014, the Axis Bank accounts of 37 policemen had been hacked and their money withdrawn from ATMs in foreign international locations.
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