Nine members of organised fraudster gang arrested: DB
Police's Detective Branch (DB) yesterday arrested nine persons who were involved in stealing money from bKash accounts, pretending to be representatives of the company.
The arrestees are Md Rana Khan, Md Liton, Nayan Sheikh, Titu Mollah, Salman Mollah, Akash Sheikh, Moazzem Hossain, Md Rahim and Md Tanjil. Police recovered 10 phones, 37 SIM cards and a car from their possession.
On information, a DB team of Gulshan Division conducted drives in different areas of Faridpur and made the arrests, said AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
According to DMP, the perpetrators used to take photographs of customers' phone numbers from registry books of bKash agents. Then hackers spoofed official numbers and pretended to be bKash representatives, asking for account details. After getting the information, they took control of the accounts and withdrew money. The hackers operated out of a rural village in Faridpur, to avoid suspicion, said Hafiz.
They were shown arrested in a case filed with Bhatara Police Station on September 15, for forgery of bKash accounts.
Mashiur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DB of Gulshan Division, told The Daily Star that the syndicate bought people's bKash accounts to transfer stolen funds.
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