Seven arrested for phishing Rs 23 lakh: JAIPUR: The cyber crime police station on Tuesday arrested seven persons for allegedly phishing Rs 23 lakh from a current account through hacking. Four out of the six accused were already arrested by Raichur (Karnataka) police in a similar case and were brought to Jaipur on production warrant. He had stated that the current account of the company is at Union Bank of India, Malviya Nagar from which hackers had allegedly phished Rs 23 lakh from their account on November 27, said Rajendra Sharma, deputy superintendent of police, cyber crime police station.We were told that the victim had unregistered one of his mobile numbers from the internet banking on October 25 prior to the act of phishing, Sharma added. The investigations suggested that the gang members were into similar acts in Kolkata and Raichur (Karnataka). When it was established that most of the withdrawals of the said money were from Kolkata, we contacted Kolkata police. After a thorough investigations, we have arrested seven persons including four who were brought via production warrant from Raichur jail, said a police officer.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 03:37:06 +0000
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