GURUGRAM: A four-member gang of cyber criminals, in their early-to-mid 20s, who cheated many people by cloning credit and debit cards, was busted on Friday. The accused had duped around 50 people of over Rs 20 lakh in total, in only the last three months, by employing a unique trick, police said. <\/p>\n
The mastermind, Raghav, was employed at the canteen of a multiplex at DT City Centre Mall, Sector 29, not too long ago. One of his accomplices was currently working there. Police have recovered a laptop and three electronic gadgets, which they used to clone plastic cards. <\/p>\n
The accused had bought the card reader and card writer on an e-commerce website for Rs 27,000 and then used them to dupe many unwary customers of lakhs of rupees. All four were produced in a city court today. Police have taken them on four days remand for questioning. <\/p>\n
The cyber crime cell was alerted following the complaint of Gurgaon-resident Drishti Bhasin, who alleged that Rs 50,000 had been fraudulently withdrawal from her account using her debit card. Following the leads provided by the cyber crime team, headed by inspector Anand Kumar, crime branch arrested the accused Sanjay, resident of Mundawar village, Alwar district, Rajasthan; Rahul Yadav, resident of Kosli village, Rewari district; Sonajeet, resident of Gurgaon and Ajay Raghav, resident of Mathura district, UP. <\/p>\n
During interrogation, the accused revealed so far, they had cloned over 50 debit and credit cards, and duped many people in the NCR of a total of over Rs 20 lakh. <\/p>\n
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