Mangaluru: cyber crime Detectives in Mangaluru on Wednesday Arrested two Tibetans allegedly for credit card fraud, Mangaluru city police commissioner N Sashi Kumar said the Cyber Economics and Narcotics (CEN) crime wing filed a complaint by Attavar resident CD Alexaner, who pointed to the continued use of his State Bank of India (SBI) credit card. That’s what surrendered.
In his complaint lodged in September, Sikandar said he surrendered his card on March 23 after the bank increased the charges. He later received a one-time password (OTP) on his phone, following which his credit card account details were collected over the phone by a person who allegedly spoke to Sikandar in Hindi. Four days after surrendering his card, Sikandar learned from statements issued by the bank that his card had been misused, in whose account transactions worth over Rs 1.1 lakh were billed.
The investigation into the crime revealed that Rs 1.12 lakh was transferred through the MobiKwik digital wallet app to two bank accounts – one each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. Money was also transferred to the account of Canara DCC Bank registered in the name of Lobsang Sangyes, a resident of Lama Camp in Tibetan Colony in Mundgod in Uttara Kannada district.
On Wednesday, Mangaluru cybercrime arrested Lobsang, 24, and Dakpa Phunde, 40, from Shar Gaden Math in Mundgod. Dakpa has been accused of instructing Lobsang to open an account exclusively with Canara DCC Bank for such transactions. Dakpa has also been accused of using banned Chinese apps such as WeChat and Red Pack.
“Local agents were facilitating transactions between Tibet and Mundgod. The police are verifying all the details based on the information received from the phones of both the suspects. We think they earned a commission for the transaction. Since they are both Tibetans, we have shared the information we have obtained about them with other agencies,” said Shashi Kumar.
The city’s police commissioner admitted that the two of them were crazy hard to break into. “He refused to divulge any information, and everything we have was obtained using technical means, especially bank details. We obtained this data from his mobile phone,” Shashi Kumar he said.
Lobsang and Dakpa were produced in a court on Wednesday and remanded to ten days’ police custody, while cybercrime officials are on the lookout for a third person suspected of involvement in the racket.
In his complaint lodged in September, Sikandar said he surrendered his card on March 23 after the bank increased the charges. He later received a one-time password (OTP) on his phone, following which his credit card account details were collected over the phone by a person who allegedly spoke to Sikandar in Hindi. Four days after surrendering his card, Sikandar learned from statements issued by the bank that his card had been misused, in whose account transactions worth over Rs 1.1 lakh were billed.
The investigation into the crime revealed that Rs 1.12 lakh was transferred through the MobiKwik digital wallet app to two bank accounts – one each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. Money was also transferred to the account of Canara DCC Bank registered in the name of Lobsang Sangyes, a resident of Lama Camp in Tibetan Colony in Mundgod in Uttara Kannada district.
On Wednesday, Mangaluru cybercrime arrested Lobsang, 24, and Dakpa Phunde, 40, from Shar Gaden Math in Mundgod. Dakpa has been accused of instructing Lobsang to open an account exclusively with Canara DCC Bank for such transactions. Dakpa has also been accused of using banned Chinese apps such as WeChat and Red Pack.
“Local agents were facilitating transactions between Tibet and Mundgod. The police are verifying all the details based on the information received from the phones of both the suspects. We think they earned a commission for the transaction. Since they are both Tibetans, we have shared the information we have obtained about them with other agencies,” said Shashi Kumar.
The city’s police commissioner admitted that the two of them were crazy hard to break into. “He refused to divulge any information, and everything we have was obtained using technical means, especially bank details. We obtained this data from his mobile phone,” Shashi Kumar he said.
Lobsang and Dakpa were produced in a court on Wednesday and remanded to ten days’ police custody, while cybercrime officials are on the lookout for a third person suspected of involvement in the racket.
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