13-08-2012, 02:22 PM
Cyber Crime & Frauds – India’s Response
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The Sun purchases bank details of 1,000 Britons for just £3 each
Employee sacked
Case:
• As communicated by The Sun, its reporter (Oliver Harvey), operating undercover, was
sold top secret information on 1,000 bank accounts by Karan Bahree in Delhi. Bahree
confirmed as to having obtained the data from contacts at call centers in and around
Delhi.
• Bahree claimed that he had acted at the behest of another person to merely deliver a "CD
presentation" without knowing that he was passing on classified information.
• However, Bahree has admitted to taking the money as a service charge.
Action Taken:
• Bahree sacked by his employer (Infinity eSearch).
• Gurgaon Police has initiated a suo moto preliminary enquiry into the case, and has seized
the computer Bahree used to work on, at Infinity eSearch.
• His resume, appointment letter and termination letter have also been seized.
The Sun purchases bank details of 1,000 Britons for just £3 each
Employee sacked
BPO employees arrested for hacking
Accused arrested by police
Case:
• Two employees of IntelNet Global Service, a BPO firm, tampered with the credit card
profiles of American citizens.
• According to sources, the two employees were paid over Rs 10 lakh through a wire
transfer from a bank in Detroit, for modifying the personal and financial data of hundreds
of credit card holders.
• These records were maintained by a US-based company, Trans-Union Services. IntelNet, a
service provider, had undertaken the job to maintain the records of Trans-Union.
• The two employees had hacked into TransUnion’s database in August 2005 on the
instructions of one Frederick Rodney, based in the US.
• As per police reports, Rodney had provided file numbers of card holders, and had asked
the employees to make the changes in their financial profiles.
BPO employees arrested for hacking
Accused arrested by police
Case:
• Two employees of IntelNet Global Service, a BPO firm, tampered with the credit card
profiles of American citizens.
• According to sources, the two employees were paid over Rs 10 lakh through a wire
transfer from a bank in Detroit, for modifying the personal and financial data of hundreds
of credit card holders.
• These records were maintained by a US-based company, Trans-Union Services. IntelNet, a
service provider, had undertaken the job to maintain the records of Trans-Union.
• The two employees had hacked into TransUnion’s database in August 2005 on the
instructions of one Frederick Rodney, based in the US.
• As per police reports, Rodney had provided file numbers of card holders, and had asked
the employees to make the changes in their financial profiles.
SMS Scam
Accused arrested by police
Case:
• Two Nadar brothers along with their friend Ramesh Gala, took help of SMS technology
and launched the first of it’s kind SMS fraud in India. They launched a campaign in print
media & also put up a website (www.getpaid4sms.com) wherein subscribers were asked to
pay deposit of INR 500 and they receive 10 SMS every day against it. The customers were
promised handsome commissions if they managed to rope in more subscribers by
forwarding the messages.
• They told their customers that they were working for a US based company called Aropis
Advertising Company which wanted to conduct a market survey about local response to
their advertisement and were using SMS as it was the latest means of communication.
• Initially small amounts were paid but when large amounts of cheques began to get
dishonored the customers statterd to worry. On November 30, one of the duped agents
approached the DN Road police station and lodged a complaint after a bank failed to
honour a pay order amounting Rs.2.17 million issued by the Nadar brothers.
• A case was registered with the DN Nagar Police station & later transferred to Economic
Offences Wing (EOW).