economictimes.indiatimes.comNEW DELHI: The bank account data of one crore Indians was up for sale. And it was dirt cheap at 10 or 20 paisa per individual, police investigations have revealed.
Probing the case of an
80 year-old woman from Greater Kailash in south Delhi, who had lost Rs
1.46 lakh from her credit card, the cops have busted the module which
stole data from insiders in banks, call centres and authorised firms,
and sold it to crooks.
The arrested person, Puran Gupta, a
resident of Pandav Nagar, has claimed that he usually sold bulk data of
around 50,000 people for anything between Rs 10,000-20,000. The accused
is said to have bought the data from a Mumbai-based supplier. Raids are
being conducted to arrest him.
The crooks used this data
by posing as bank representatives and convinced people into sharing
details such as the CVV number and OTP, and used these to withdraw money
.
As the crooks were already armed with details such as
the person's name and card number, many of their targets fall into the
trap and ended up furnishing their passwords.
Most of the
time, the crooks said they were trying to confirm suspicious transac
tions and asked people to quickly share details so that an ongoing
transaction could be blocked. They use other pretexts like encashing
rewards point, card blocked etc to lure people.
As first
reported by TOI on April 6, the cops had arrested one Ashish Kumar for
duping the GK resident. He had worked earlier in banks and financial
institutions as a sales executive. In 2013, he started tele-calling for
selling health insurance via his own web-portal.
He used
to purchase the data from Puran Gupta. Gupta worked as a data entry
operator during which he got the idea to make money by selling data.
So, he started his own company in 2010 to provide data.
“Gupta
has disclosed that he had created a firm named `First step services and
solution' and got it registered on portals such as Just Dial. His
clients used to call him through Ju
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