hyderabad through debit card and chehara pehchano celebrity fraud newage crooks have duped more than 200 persons to the tune of several lakhs of rupees in the first four months of this year in 2014 hyderabad cyber crime sleuths had detected 61 debit or credit card frauds but in the first four months of this year the number has almost reached 200 with around 50 victims knocking on the doors of ccs every month about 90 per cent of the debit or credit card victims are duped by gangs who call the victims by posing as bank executive or the banks call centre staff in the guise of issuing a new card the fraudster collects entire debit or credit card details including the pin and cvv number from gullible people and then empty the bank account either through online or retail purchases ccs cyber crime inspector vp tiwari told toi on friday 65yearold aradhana name changed lodged a complaint with the ccs police saying that she received a call a few days ago from a person posing as sbi executive the caller said that my debit card is about to expire and asked me to confirm its details to issue a new one i gave all the details including pin and cvv number within few hours rs 19900 has been paid from my account for various purchases including phone recharges aradhana said in her complaint police found that the mobile recharging happened from west bengal and that the caller too was from the same state but other than trying to get money refunded from the banks or money transaction gateways there is hardly anything cops could do as the callers number became inactive in several other cases fraudsters used the stolen data to make purchases on ecommerce portals like flipkart even when we try to track the people who received the products purchased with stolen debit or credit card information in 90 per cent of the cases the recipients would either be unavailable at the given address or would only be working for a paltry commission the kingpin hardly gets caught and the recovery becomes almost impossible the inspector said police also received about five complaints from the customers of syndicate banks picket branch who withdrew cash from the banks branch atm centre soon after they carried out the withdrawals amounts ranging from rs 20000 to rs 25 lakh were withdrawn from the bank accounts of the victims without their knowledge police found out that the fraudsters attached a skimmer to the atms card slot to steal the data of the debit card and pin was collected with a video camera attached to the ceiling of the atm centre the gang member used the stolen data to create cloned debit cards and cash withdrawals were made at atm centres in mumbai we strongly advice people to use atm centres which are manned by security guards and check the card slot and the premises of the atm for any suspicious additional