Cybercriminals use PAN particulars of Dhoni, Abhishek Bachchan for bank card fraud, 5 arrested 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: In a weird case of cyber fraud, a gaggle of fraudsters allegedly procured PAN particulars of a number of Bollywood actors and cricketers from their GST Identification Numbers which can be found on-line, and bought bank cards issued of their names from Pune-based fintech startup ‘One Card’.

Some of the celebrities whose names and particulars have been utilized by the fraudsters are Abhishek Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty, Madhuri Dixit, Emraan Hashmi and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Shahadra Rohit Meena mentioned.

“Since investigation into the matter is underway, we cannot comment further on it,” Meena informed PTI.

The firm bought wind of the fraud subsequently however not earlier than the fraudsters used a few of these playing cards to buy merchandise value Rs 21.32 lakh.

It instantly alerted the Delhi Police which swung into motion and arrested 5 of them.

The 5 accused, recognized as Puneet, Mohd Asif, Sunil Kumar, Pankaj Mishar and Vishwa Bhaskar Sharma, acted in shut coordination to defraud the corporate in a really uncommon method, Delhi Police sources mentioned.

“After arrest, when they were interrogated, they disclosed their unique modus operandi. They used to get GST details of these celebrities from Google. They were very well aware that the first two digits of GSTIN are state code and the next 10 digits are PAN number,” one of many sources mentioned.

The supply added, “Since the celebrities’ date of delivery is offered on Google, these two — PAN and date of delivery — full the PAN particulars.

They bought the PAN playing cards remade fraudulently by placing their very own footage on them so that in video verification, their appears to be like match the picture obtainable on their PAN/Aadhaar card.

For occasion, the PAN card of Abhishek Bachchan had his PAN and date of delivery however an image of one of many accused. They cast their Aadhaar particulars similarly. After getting this info, they utilized for bank cards.

During video verification, they have been requested questions associated to their monetary actions which they answered simply as that they had bought all such particulars from CIBIL.

The supply knowledgeable that they have been conscious that these celebrities probably have good CIBIL scores which might brighten their possibilities of getting bank cards.

“Also, they were aware that the online verification system cannot identify Abhishek Bachchan as a film star. So the picture of accused Pankaj Mishra with Abhishek Bachchan’s PAN and Aadhaar details worked well to get a card issued,” he added.

Further investigation is on and it’s suspected that they could have used the same modus operandi to get bank cards from different banks and monetary establishments.

Police sources additionally knowledgeable that they did on-line analysis for a number of months to search out methods to make use of loopholes within the on-line verification and issuance of bank cards.

The Pune-based FPL Technologies Private Limited points “One Card” which is a contactless steel bank card together with a digital rendition of the identical within the One Card and One Score App “so that the customer can use it for any online or app-based transactions or purchases,” the corporate mentioned in its criticism to the police.

The firm additional alleged that these fraudsters approached the corporate by their app by importing the main points reminiscent of PAN and Aadhaar quantity to get bank cards issued of their names.

The credit score restrict of the cardboard was permitted after “taking into account the bureau details, that is, the information of the customer stored with the credit information companies, for example, CIBIL, to establish the genuineness and authenticity of the applicant and its credentials,” the criticism mentioned.

It added, “They left the original PAN and Aadhaar number and the date of the birth intact and uploaded the forged PAN card/Aadhaar card on our app.”

Accordingly, our system fetched the bureau particulars based mostly on the unique PAN and prompt a credit score restrict.

The firm’s criticism acknowledged that by misusing the identical, the accused boarded with us by importing their real-time selfie which matched the {photograph} on the solid PAN card/Aadhaar card.

Accordingly, bank cards have been issued to the accused individuals with an permitted credit score restrict of Rs 10 lakh every.

“The approved credit limit was exhausted/withdrawn by the accused within a span of a week and nothing has been repaid to us,” the FIR mentioned.

It added, “We came to know about this fraud when our system got an alert that multiple onboarding attempts were being made using a single device. “

To simplify, the accused tried to onboard with us utilizing a complete of 83 PAN particulars from seven gadgets.

The firm additionally delivered some bodily bank cards to the addresses talked about on a number of the paperwork.

NEW DELHI: In a weird case of cyber fraud, a gaggle of fraudsters allegedly procured PAN particulars of a number of Bollywood actors and cricketers from their GST Identification Numbers which can be found on-line, and bought bank cards issued of their names from Pune-based fintech startup ‘One Card’.

Some of the celebrities whose names and particulars have been utilized by the fraudsters are Abhishek Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty, Madhuri Dixit, Emraan Hashmi and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Shahadra Rohit Meena mentioned.

“Since investigation into the matter is underway, we cannot comment further on it,” Meena informed PTI.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

The firm bought wind of the fraud subsequently however not earlier than the fraudsters used a few of these playing cards to buy merchandise value Rs 21.32 lakh.

It instantly alerted the Delhi Police which swung into motion and arrested 5 of them.

The 5 accused, recognized as Puneet, Mohd Asif, Sunil Kumar, Pankaj Mishar and Vishwa Bhaskar Sharma, acted in shut coordination to defraud the corporate in a really uncommon method, Delhi Police sources mentioned.

“After arrest, when they were interrogated, they disclosed their unique modus operandi. They used to get GST details of these celebrities from Google. They were very well aware that the first two digits of GSTIN are state code and the next 10 digits are PAN number,” one of many sources mentioned.

The supply added, “Since the celebrities’ date of delivery is offered on Google, these two — PAN and date of delivery — full the PAN particulars.

They bought the PAN playing cards remade fraudulently by placing their very own footage on them so that in video verification, their appears to be like match the picture obtainable on their PAN/Aadhaar card.

For occasion, the PAN card of Abhishek Bachchan had his PAN and date of delivery however an image of one of many accused. They cast their Aadhaar particulars similarly. After getting this info, they utilized for bank cards.

During video verification, they have been requested questions associated to their monetary actions which they answered simply as that they had bought all such particulars from CIBIL.

The supply knowledgeable that they have been conscious that these celebrities probably have good CIBIL scores which might brighten their possibilities of getting bank cards.

“Also, they were aware that the online verification system cannot identify Abhishek Bachchan as a film star. So the picture of accused Pankaj Mishra with Abhishek Bachchan’s PAN and Aadhaar details worked well to get a card issued,” he added.

Further investigation is on and it’s suspected that they could have used the same modus operandi to get bank cards from different banks and monetary establishments.

Police sources additionally knowledgeable that they did on-line analysis for a number of months to search out methods to make use of loopholes within the on-line verification and issuance of bank cards.

The Pune-based FPL Technologies Private Limited points “One Card” which is a contactless steel bank card together with a digital rendition of the identical within the One Card and One Score App “so that the customer can use it for any online or app-based transactions or purchases,” the corporate mentioned in its criticism to the police.

The firm additional alleged that these fraudsters approached the corporate by their app by importing the main points reminiscent of PAN and Aadhaar quantity to get bank cards issued of their names.

The credit score restrict of the cardboard was permitted after “taking into account the bureau details, that is, the information of the customer stored with the credit information companies, for example, CIBIL, to establish the genuineness and authenticity of the applicant and its credentials,” the criticism mentioned.

It added, “They left the original PAN and Aadhaar number and the date of the birth intact and uploaded the forged PAN card/Aadhaar card on our app.”

Accordingly, our system fetched the bureau particulars based mostly on the unique PAN and prompt a credit score restrict.

The firm’s criticism acknowledged that by misusing the identical, the accused boarded with us by importing their real-time selfie which matched the {photograph} on the solid PAN card/Aadhaar card.

Accordingly, bank cards have been issued to the accused individuals with an permitted credit score restrict of Rs 10 lakh every.

“The approved credit limit was exhausted/withdrawn by the accused within a span of a week and nothing has been repaid to us,” the FIR mentioned.

It added, “We came to know about this fraud when our system got an alert that multiple onboarding attempts were being made using a single device. ”

To simplify, the accused tried to onboard with us utilizing a complete of 83 PAN particulars from seven gadgets.

The firm additionally delivered some bodily bank cards to the addresses talked about on a number of the paperwork.