A fraudulent group used to collect mobile number of customers from mobile banking agents with a certain amount of commission.
The gang asked the customers to dial a specific number, even sometimes to click on various links provided by them to access the PIN number of certain mobile banking accounts and then looted money from those accounts after cloning those SIM cards.
They also lured bank customers with different lucrative offers.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) revealed such information at a press briefing yesterday after arresting the leader of a gang.
RAB-3 Commanding Officer (CO) Lieutenant Colonel Rokibul Hasan said that a team of the elite force conducted a raid at a house on road no. 19 of Dhaka’s Mirpur-1 area and arrested Shohel Ahmed, 36, on Thursday.
The RAB team also recovered a laptop, a mobile signal buster, three modems, a huge number of SIM cards, multi-SIM gateway devise, mobile phone sets and other equipment, used for stealing money, he added.
In primary interrogation, Shohel told the RAB that he has been doing such fraudulent activities since 2017 and has taken away a large sum of money, the CO further said.
Replying to a journalist’s query, the RAB official said that the gang used to target those persons who in general, transact in big amounts.
Shohel used to collect account numbers from agents and decipher the PINs applying various tricks, the RAB official added.