New Delhi: In a shocking revelation, police investigations have revealed that bank data of one crore Indians were up for sale at a dirt cheap price of 10 or 20 paisa each.
As reported by the Times of India, the cops cited several examples to prove their case but one particular incident led them to the key suspect.
In one instance, the cops probed an incident where an 80-year-old woman from Greater Kailash in south Delhi lost Rs 1.46 lakh from her credit card and revealed a module which stole data from insiders in banks, call centers and even authorized firms.
The stolen data was then sold to crooks, as per the report. However, the police were shocked after the main accused in the module confessed to the crime and subsequently led the cops to a stolen data of one crore people, said DCP (south-east Delhi) Romil Baaniya.
The stolen data – a total of 20 gigabytes of data – consisted of credit card numbers, cardholder names, date of births and mobile numbers. The report also added that the most sought after data was bank details of senior citizens.
The key accused Puran Gupta, who was a resident of Pandav Nagar, claimed that he usually sold bulk data of around 50,000 people for a price of Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000. As per Gupta, the data he sold was retrieved from a Mumbai-based supplier, who is now under the scanner of the police.
The crooks who bought the data used it to con customers by calling them up as bank representatives and convinced them to share CVV number and OTP for withdrawing money.
Many of the customers usually ended up falling in the trap as the crooks already knew key details such as the person’s name and card number.
Most of the times, these crooks call the customers on the pretext that they are trying to confirm some suspicious transaction, asking the people to quickly share details so the ongoing transaction could be blocked.
Other excuses are also used including special offers, gift vouchers, encashing reward points, and much more.
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 Just Dial and seek data required by them. The data was transferred through email," the DCP added. (Times Now)
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