Staff Reporter :
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday claimed to have arrested the leader of fraud gang, who had been misappropriating money from mobile banking users, from Dhaka’s Mirpur area last night.
Sohel Ahmed, 36, used to collect account numbers of mobile banking users from agents and swindle money from accounts by collecting PIN numbers from the users applying various tricks, Lt Col Rakibul Hasan, Commanding Officer of RAB-3 said this in a press briefing at his office in the city’s Tikatuli on Friday morning .
Acting on tip off, a team of RAB-3 arrested Sohel, from the first floor flat of a five-storey building in Block-C in Mirpur around 11:30pm after conducting a drive in the area, said the RAB official.
The RAB team also recovered huge number of mobile SIMS, Multi SIM Gateway device, modem and a laptop from the flat, the RAB official said.
During a primary interrogation, Sohel admitted to RAB that his gang collected 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 collected passwords from the account holders, after making a call with a spoofed (cloned) number belonging to the official number of mobile banking service providers.
They embezzled money by using the passwords, the RAB official quoted Sohel as saying.
Cloning of SIM cards is a system through which fraudsters make calls using a person’s number, according to RAB.
Sohel had been swindling people’s money in such a way through mobile banking service since 2017, said the CO.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday claimed to have arrested the leader of fraud gang, who had been misappropriating money from mobile banking users, from Dhaka’s Mirpur area last night.
Sohel Ahmed, 36, used to collect account numbers of mobile banking users from agents and swindle money from accounts by collecting PIN numbers from the users applying various tricks, Lt Col Rakibul Hasan, Commanding Officer of RAB-3 said this in a press briefing at his office in the city’s Tikatuli on Friday morning .
Acting on tip off, a team of RAB-3 arrested Sohel, from the first floor flat of a five-storey building in Block-C in Mirpur around 11:30pm after conducting a drive in the area, said the RAB official.
The RAB team also recovered huge number of mobile SIMS, Multi SIM Gateway device, modem and a laptop from the flat, the RAB official said.
During a primary interrogation, Sohel admitted to RAB that his gang collected 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 collected passwords from the account holders, after making a call with a spoofed (cloned) number belonging to the official number of mobile banking service providers.
They embezzled money by using the passwords, the RAB official quoted Sohel as saying.
Cloning of SIM cards is a system through which fraudsters make calls using a person’s number, according to RAB.
Sohel had been swindling people’s money in such a way through mobile banking service since 2017, said the CO.
