'Don't give your a/c no to anyone'
Rabale police appeal to people after arresting two persons who used to transfer money from netbanking accounts
Be careful if anyone approaches you with a request to get money deposited into your account due to emergency, the next thing you will know is that police is looking out for you. Rabale police have arrested two persons who gave their bank account number to a hacker who then transferred the money from Airoli resident's netbanking account into the arrested duo's account and later withdrew the same and gave a small portion of money to them.
"Usually accused promise people that they will give a portion of the amount that will be transferred to their account. So most of them think that there is no harm in giving the account number to someone and in turn they will be earning money as well so they fall prey to their story and agree," an official from Rabale Police Station said.
Prashant Borudkar, a resident from MSEB colony, Airoli lost Rs 10.49 lakh in a netbanking fraud. An unidentified accused hacked the password of his netbanking account in SBI bank and with the details he got, he registered a sim card lost application with the service provider of Borudkar.
After the accused got a duplicate sim card of the number that Borudkar owned, he made the transaction and transferred Rs 10.49 lakh to 14 different accounts. In all, he made 26 transactions. According to police, the accused before making the transactions, approached people randomly to ask if they could help with their account number and after transferring the amount, he would ask a third person to withdraw the money from the ATM so that the accused is not caught in CCTV footage.
"So in the whole process, the main accused never comes in front and nobody gets to know anything about him. In this case, the IP address from where the netbanking account was hacked was traced to Brazil and the account wherein the money was transferred was traced to different parts of the country including Chennai, Vijaywada, Bihar and Hyderabad," the official added.
The accounts were also traced to Ashok Rajaram Arora (20) and Manoj Ramesh Parmar (19), both residents of Ghansoli following which they were arrested. "Even if the person who falls prey to the trick played by the accused without knowing the actual intention of the accused, he indirectly becomes a part of the crime done. People should be more alert and should always remember that easy money is always part of some crime," the official added.
Rabale police appeal to people after arresting two persons who used to transfer money from netbanking accounts
Be careful if anyone approaches you with a request to get money deposited into your account due to emergency, the next thing you will know is that police is looking out for you. Rabale police have arrested two persons who gave their bank account number to a hacker who then transferred the money from Airoli resident's netbanking account into the arrested duo's account and later withdrew the same and gave a small portion of money to them.
"Usually accused promise people that they will give a portion of the amount that will be transferred to their account. So most of them think that there is no harm in giving the account number to someone and in turn they will be earning money as well so they fall prey to their story and agree," an official from Rabale Police Station said.
Prashant Borudkar, a resident from MSEB colony, Airoli lost Rs 10.49 lakh in a netbanking fraud. An unidentified accused hacked the password of his netbanking account in SBI bank and with the details he got, he registered a sim card lost application with the service provider of Borudkar.
After the accused got a duplicate sim card of the number that Borudkar owned, he made the transaction and transferred Rs 10.49 lakh to 14 different accounts. In all, he made 26 transactions. According to police, the accused before making the transactions, approached people randomly to ask if they could help with their account number and after transferring the amount, he would ask a third person to withdraw the money from the ATM so that the accused is not caught in CCTV footage.
"So in the whole process, the main accused never comes in front and nobody gets to know anything about him. In this case, the IP address from where the netbanking account was hacked was traced to Brazil and the account wherein the money was transferred was traced to different parts of the country including Chennai, Vijaywada, Bihar and Hyderabad," the official added.
The accounts were also traced to Ashok Rajaram Arora (20) and Manoj Ramesh Parmar (19), both residents of Ghansoli following which they were arrested. "Even if the person who falls prey to the trick played by the accused without knowing the actual intention of the accused, he indirectly becomes a part of the crime done. People should be more alert and should always remember that easy money is always part of some crime," the official added.
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