Interstate cyber criminal arrested for fraud of credit card activation
RSD-Sircilla news: Mohammed Kalim Pasha, father: Babujani, from Chintal, Venkataramireddy Nagar, Hyderabad, and Rashid, both of whom were acquaintances and were addicted to bad habits and wanted to earn more money in a short time, decided that they could easily make money by deceiving people online. In February 2025, they went to Kolkata together with a person named Ankit, who was acquaintance of Rashid, and asked him how to deceive people online. Ankit said that he would send the names, phone numbers, credit card numbers and PAN card numbers of those who applied for the RBL credit card and after receiving the card, they would send them the names, phone numbers, credit card numbers and PAN card numbers through WhatsApp. With these, they would talk to the people who had applied for the credit card like a credit card customer care and convince them and commit fraud. As part of this, they would talk to the victims for credit card activation and Ankit would give them the names, phone numbers, credit card numbers and PAN card numbers. If the Apk/links were sent, if they clicked or installed such Apk/links, in the next moments after their phone was hacked, Ankit would make purchases through e-commerce using the money in their credit cards and spend all the money. As Ankit said, Mohammed Kalim would send money to both of them through RAPIDO courier at the rate of Rs. 2,500/- for every lakh received through RAPIDO courier through unknown persons. Ankit would only communicate with them through WhatsApp, send the details of the credit card holders, send Mobile phones and SIM cards through RAPIDO courier through unknown persons for both of them to use once every 10 days, and take back the old Mobile phones and SIM cards through RAPIDO courier. In this case, a person named Suresh Kumar from Sircilla town was cheated by them and filed a complaint at the Sircilla town police station. The Sircilla town police formed a team under the leadership of District Cyber Team RSI Junaid, Gangareddy, Kittu, and Mahesh and arrested the remaining accused in Jharkhand based on technology. He said that the remaining one accused will be arrested soon. He specially congratulated Cyber RSI Junaid, Cyber Team Gangareddy, Kittu, Mahesh, Srikanth Reddy, and Srinivas for their efforts in arresting the inter-state cyber criminal.
Details of the arrested accused:
A1.Ankith Kumar @ Ankith s/o Shaeb Kapri, 32 Years, Occ: Business, r/o Gram t Basdiha, Post: Basdiha Thana Mohanpur, Momi Deoghar, Jharkhand State.
Accused in jail
A2.Mohammad Kaleem Pasha s/o Mohammad Babu Jani, 32 years, Muslim, occ: Private job, r/o H.No 26-99, Venkatramireddy Nagar, Near Community hall, Chintal, Hyderabad,
Details of absconding accused:
A3.Rashid r/o Hyderabad.
