New Delhi, July 11 (Inditop.com) A 23-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly cheating more than 75 credit card holders of more than Rs.4 crore, police said Saturday.
“Ravi Kumar Sindhu, a resident of Paharganj area, was arrested from Sarojini Nagar area of south Delhi Wednesday. His arrest has helped us unearthed one of the biggest cheating rackets of recent times,” a senior police official said.
Sindhu allegedly duped credit card holders of various banks of Rs.4 crore in different parts of Delhi and neighbouring areas like Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida.
The case came to light when one of the victims, Samir Gupta, a resident of Sarojini Nagar, lodged a complaint that a young man posing as an executive of a courier company had taken away his credit card on the pretext of making some changes and had promised to return it in a couple of hours but had made purchases of over Rs.40,000 on it.
During investigation, the police discovered that Sindhu had changed 10 mobile handsets and 56 mobile phone numbers in the past eight months, all on fictitious identities and had duped more than 75 credit card holders of various multinational and nationalised banks.
“Seven fake IDs, five credit cards and sixteen forged card receiving letters on behalf of a courier company were recovered from him,” the police officer added.
Sindhu had worked as an assistant manager in two banks and presently was running a cafeteria in one of the prominent hospitals in Faridabad. “He used his banking experience with specialty in credit card transactions and their delivery through the courier company to cheat the cardholders,” the police officer said.
The police has recovered a car, split air conditioners, LCD televisions, cameras, mobile phones, expensive wrist watches, branded clothes and other household items worth over Rs.15 lakh – purchased with the victims’ credit cards – from him.
