13 ‘mobile banking scammers’ arrested
They swindled more than Tk 1 crore: Rab
Rab yesterday claimed to have arrested 13 members of a fraud gang, who had misappropriated more than Tk 1 crore from mobile banking users in the last two months.
Several teams of Rab arrested them in the capital and Bhanga upazila of Faridpur early yesterday and recovered Tk 14.5 lakh and some electronic devices they used in the criminal activities, Lt Col Sarwar-Bin-Quashem, Rab's Legal and Media wing director, said.
The gang also used to swindle money from bank accounts of clients through debit and credit card forgery, he said.
The arrestees are Nazmul Jamaddar, Hasan Mir, Ibrahim Mir, Tawhid Hawlader, Mohon Sikder, Parvez Mir, Sohel Mollah, Delwar Hossain, Syed Hawlader, Rakib Hossain, Mohammad Ali, Palash Talukder and Emon.
This gang became more active during the shutdown when people used mobile banking service more. It embezzled more than Tk 1 crore in the last two months, Sarwar said.
They all are from Faridpur district and Rab claimed they came to know at least eight groups are active in such crimes.
The Rab official said some of the gang members used to collect the account numbers of mobile banking users, especially those who used to transact large amounts of money, from the agents of different mobile banking service providers. Later, they would collect passwords from the account holders after making a call with a spoofed (cloned) number belonging to official numbers of mobile banking service providers, and used those to siphon money out of their account.