The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested four for being allegedly involved with fraudulent money in the name of bKash account updates.
The arrestees are – ring leader Mahbub Kazi, 21, his associates Yousuf Mia, 18, sacked bKash Distributor Sales Officer (DSO) Shahrier Nafiz alias Milton, 25, and Ripon Mia, 24.
Special Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Cyber Police Center of the CID Rezaul Masud said the ring leader Mahbub somehow builds a friendship with DSO Milton. Later, as per Mahbub's demand, Milton provided the bKash agent numbers under his distributor house. In return, he would get a commission from Mahbub.
Later, by cloning the number, they asked the agents for OTP in the name of account update and embezzled money, he said in a press briefing on Thursday.
A bKash agent lodged a complaint to the CID that he received a phone call from the office of bKash DSO asking him to help them update information.
He further said that the fraudsters embezzled Tk 10, 7000 through cloning his SIM card after the bKash agent provided them with the One Time Password (OTP).
Following the complaint, the CID members in cooperation with the CPC conducted a drive in Jamalpur district and arrested Milton and Ripon while the other two were arrested from Dhaka and Faridpur on Wednesday, the CID officer said.
This official said that in a primary investigation they found that this fraudster has fraudulent around Tk 15 lakh in the last 3 months.
For this purpose, they used paid version cloning apps to clone the number of bKash DSOs and cheat various agents, he said.
Nine mobile phones and SIM cards of 57 different mobile operator companies were seized from them during the arrest.
