On Monday the Cyber Crime Police, CCS, DD, Hyderabad apprehended an ATM Card fraudster B.Surya Teja (21) a Final year B.Tech student, Resident of 2nd floor Sagar Complex of B.N. Reddy Nagar, Hyderabad, Native of Khammam District, who is involved in carrying out several ATM Card frauds by unauthorized and illegally obtaining details of ATM cum Debit cards of ignorant public.
On sept 20, 2014 Mohan Driver Grade-1, Office of the Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (C) Govt. of India, Ministry of Labour & Employment ATI campus of Vidyanagar Hyderabad, lodged a complaint stating that there are ten debit transactions in his account which were not done by him totalling Rs. 14,210, and requested to do the needful. On the strength of above complaint a case has been registered under sections 66 (A) (C) (D) I.T.A. Act-2008 and Sec. 420 IPC was registered and took up investigation.
During the course of investigation a team was deputed to ascertain the transaction details from Shoppers stop, who furnished the video clippings of the accused while purchasing and also the IP Nos., used for generating the online purchase vouchers. The IP Nos. belongs to Beam Cable ISP Providers, who in turn furnished the address of Happy Hours internet café at Chaitanyapuri of Hastinapuram. Further, investigations lead to identification of accused by internet café operator and on suspicion the accused person B.Surya Teja was arrested on Monday.
The accused person, who is an engineering student and has sharp memory, selects some isolated ATM Centres particularly that of Andhra Bank and keep watch over the persons who comes to withdraw money from the ATMs. He looks at the ATM card numbers and other details viz. PIN No., CVV no. etc. and memorize them within a span of 3 to 4 seconds and later utilizes the same memorized ATM card details to make purchases over internet centre online sites such as Bookmyshow.com; Oxicash.com; easymovies.com, shoppersstop.com etc. by reproducing the memorized data of ATM cards from victim ATM customer. He used to purchase movie tickets, gift cards, and money transfer etc. to suit his lavish life style. He used Andhra Bank ATM cards only because they can be utilized with just with debit card No. PIN No and CVV No. and not many details such as personal details are required. He used to operate singly.
Likewise, the accused memorized the debit card details of several ignorant public and used the same for online shopping .In the same manner, he has cheated and used the ATM card details for online shopping.
The accused is a habitual offender, earlier he was involved in two cases in the year 2011 of State C.I.D Cyber Crime P.S. and one case of Cyber Crime PS, Cyberabad and the cases are Pending Trial. (INN)