The Cyberabad Police on Saturday arrested two persons, including an engineering graduate, in a case of cheating, forgery and the cloning of a credit card.
The Cyberabad Police on Saturday arrested two persons, including an engineering graduate, in a case of cheating, forgery and the cloning of a credit card.
According to police, On February 15, the Cyber Crime Police had registered a case in Cr.No.09/2013 U/Sec. 419, 420, 468 IPC & Sec. 66, 66 (C&D) I.T. Act of 2000.
The complainant, Koukur Shankar, sales executive at Prodigy Computers at Kukatpally, told the police that on 11 February one person came to the shop and purchased 2GB RAM worth Rs. 2,800 by swiping a Karnataka Bank card, and again he purchased a Transcend DVD writer and a D-link router for Rs 2,900 by swiping the same card. After some time, he received a call from ICICI Bank, which had issued the EDC machine to the shop, that the above transactions were done through a fake credit card and requested him to apprehend the person who swiped the card. On this information, the police swung into action and arrested the accused who was later identified as Donapudi Tarun Tej, a resident of Bachupalli.
The police also arrested Mekala Mallesh of Balanagar, a dollar-exchange broker who transferred the US dollar to Tarun Tej's Liberty Reserve account by taking Indian currency, who in turn purchased hacked credit/debit card information through online websites darkcc.com and iwantim.com and loaded the same on to the unused credit/debit cards with the help of a Magnetic Strip Reader and a laptop, and purchased different items from different shops within the value of Rs. 6,000.
The articles seized by the police include one SONY VAIO E-series laptop, a magnetic strip reader - 606, a 2-TB hard disk, an ACER LED monitor, a 1-TB HGST hard disk, an 8-GB Transcend RAM, a Transcend DVD writer, a D-Link router, two Fastrack watches, two Peter England pants, one Peter England shirt, two Prestige rice cookers, one new MRF Hero Honda tyre tube, two new volleyballs made of NIVIA, six debit/credit cards and one Samsung Galaxy S-II mobile. (INN)