Notorious fraudster arrested

A notorious inter-state fraudster, who allegedly siphoned off people's money through phishing, has been arrested, police said today.
Accused Mohammed Saif alias Saifullah, an auto consultant and a native of Hassan district of Karnataka state, siphoned off the money of the customers, who used to upload their grievances on a website -- www.Consumercomplaint.In, they said.
"The accused used to visit this website and trap the aggrieved consumers by posing as official of the organisation concerned and obtained their ATM card details and other personal details and used to transfer the money fraudulently to two mobile money transfer and payment service providers," a release from Central Crime Station (CCS) -a wing of Hyderabad Police said.

The accused also used to ask the customers to connect on a fake website www.Bankingrbi.Com to make it appear like an authenticated website and got their bank credentials, which he would later copy through the weblink. Thereafter, he used to withdraw the money from the customers' account. This way, he has cheated about 250 to 300 customers.
He used to purchase SIM cards of various companies on fictitious names for making calls to the customers and also use different mobile instruments for each offence.
"After deceiving the customers, he used to break both the SIM as well as the instrument to destroy the evidence," police said.