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Credit Card Fraud: Blurt Out PIN, Game Over! Huge Scam in Name of Assistance, 3 Arrested
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News18•03-10-2026, 23:29
Credit Card Fraud: Blurt Out PIN, Game Over! Huge Scam in Name of Assistance, 3 Arrested
- •Fraudsters took credit cards from customers under the pretext of 'activation' or PIN generation.
- •Shaktigarh police in Purba Bardhaman arrested Deepak Bhattacharya, Ajitabh De, and Saleha Khatun alias Sabina in connection with the fraud.
- •The accused posed as employees of a nationalized bank's credit card department to contact customers.
- •Investigations reveal they have been involved in such fraud since 2015, with 25 credit cards recovered.
- •Customers realized the fraud after receiving transaction messages and filed complaints with the police.
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The accused contacted customers posing as bank employees offering credit cards, then took the original cards under the guise of activation or PIN generation to make unauthorized withdrawals and transactions without the customers' knowledge.
The police arrested Deepak Bhattacharya, Ajitabh De, and Saleha Khatun alias Sabina, who were produced in the Bardhaman court following the completion of their police custody.
Investigators initially recovered five credit cards from the accused, but as the investigation progressed, the total number of recovered cards increased to 25.
