Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested three persons in connection with bank card forgery from different areas of the country. Najmul Islam, Additional Deputy Commissioner of CTTC unit, told Bangladesh Post on Saturday that they were arrested in a drive that began on Friday night.
They arrestees were identified as gang leader Mamnun Talukdar, Raju Farazi and Mithu Mridha. CTTC officials claimed that the fraud gang embezzled at least Tk five million from more than 100 bank accounts in Dhaka, Cox's Bazar and Faridpur districts. According to ADC Najmul, CTTC team first arrested Mamnun from a hotel in Cox's Bazar on Friday. They nabbed his associate Raju from Jatrabari area in Dhaka on the same day. According to the information obtained from Mamun and Raju, CTTC team raided Bhanga Upazila under Faridpur and arrested Mithu on Saturday.
The CTTC team also recovered seven mobile phones and huge nubmer of fake SIM cards from their possessions. CTTC seized one private car and froze multiple bank and bKash accounts of the fraud group. They used to steal Card Verification Value (CVV) numbers and One-time Password (OTP) of mobile phones from the ATM card users using different tactics.
They would clone phone numbers of the card divisions of their targeted bank. Using these cloned phone numbers, they would collect ATM card numbers, user names, and mobile numbers from branch managers introducing themselves as employee of the card division. Claiming themselves as customer card officials, they would then call accounts holders in the name of helping to activate their new ATM cards.
Thus they used to collect their CVV codes, expiry dates of the ATM cards. At one stage they would transfer their money to their mobile banking accounts. Receiving complaints from different bank accounts holders, DMP communicated with the Bangladesh Bank, the regulatory bank of the country.
A case was filed with the Dhanmondi Police Station over the forgery. During the primary interrogation, arrested criminals admitted their involvement in the crime. Police produced the arrestees to a Dhaka court seeking a remand for 10 days for each.
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