Three people have been arrested for hacking at least 14 bank accounts of Rs.8 lakh to pay around 150 people's electricity bills, police said Monday.'Anil Jain, Suresh Khandelwal and Rakesh Roshan were held Sunday from Gandhi Nagar area in east Delhi,' said Deputy Commissioner of Police O.P. Mishra. Another member of the gang, Pritam Mishra, is absconding.
The three were held after HDFC Bank registered a complaint that a few people had fraudulently acquired data of customers and made some unauthorised payments of electricity bills and other payments through internet banking. During investigations, police found that that someone had obtained the data of account holders by phishing, or fraudulently obtaining secret details through a fake website resembling the original.
During interrogation, the three accused were found to paid bills from the bank accounts they had hacked.'Around Rs.8 lakh was withdrawn from 14 customers of the bank to deposited bills of about 150 consumers. The gang has also duped the customers of other banks by depositing the bills and other payments of recharging of mobile phones,' added Mishra.
'After verification from the details of the consumers of BSES, whose payments were made by the accused, and from the data of bank officials, Jain was first held followed by Khandelwal and Roshan,' said Mishra.Jain has a telephone shop and Khandelwal was running a garment shop in Gandhi Nagar area.
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