In a case of cheating, forgery and cloning of credit card, the Cyberabad Police on Saturday arrested two persons, including an engineering graduate.
According to police, On February 15, the Cyber Crime Police has registered a case in Cr.No.09/2013 U/Sec. 419, 420, 468 IPC & Sec. 66, 66 (C&D) I.T. Act of 2000.
The complainant, Koukur Shankar, Sales Executive of Prodigy Computers at Kukatpally told police that on February 11 one person came to the shop and purchased one 2GB RAM for Rs 2800 by swiping Karnataka Bank Card and again he purchased one Transcend DVD writer with D link Router for Rs 2,900 by swiping the above card. After some time he received a call from ICICI Bank, who issued EDC Machine to the shop that the above transactions are done through fake credit card and requested him to apprehend the person who swiped the card. On information, police swung into action and arrested the accused who was later identified as Donapudi Tarun Tej, a resident of Bachupalli.
The police have also arrested Mekala Mallesh of Balanagar, a dollar exchange broker who transferred the US dollar to Tarun Tej’s Liberty Reserve account by taking Indian currency, who in turn purchased hacked credit/debit card information through online websites darkcc.com and iwantim.com and loaded the same on to the unused credit/debit cards with the help of Magnetic Strip Reader and a laptop and purchased different items from different shops within the value of Rs 6000.
The articles seized by the police include, one SONY VAIO E-series Laptop, Magnetic strip Reader – 606, 2-TB Hard Disk, ACER LED Monitor, 1-TB HGST Hard Disk, 8-GB Transcend RAM, Transcend DVD writer, D-Link Router, two Fast track watches, two Peter England Pants, one Peter England Shirt, two Prestige Rice Cookers, one new MRF Hero Honda tyre tube, two new volleyballs made of NIVIA, six Debit/credit Cards and one Samsung Galaxy S-II mobile. (INN)