Hyderabad police writes to RBI

​Hyderabad: Finding it difficult to trace and nab cyber offenders who were using fraudulent IDs to open bank accounts, the Hyderabad City Police have written a letter to the Reserve Bank of India requesting it to take necessary precautionary measures to contain online fraud.

Though the police faced this problem repeatedly, they could nab mediators through whom the kingpins of cyber offences were nabbed. But, cyber crime personnel who visited Nagaland and Assam in July to nab some offenders in the debit card fraud cases were shocked to see that all the offenders in about 20 cases used pseudo names and fictitious identification cards to open bank accounts.

“As part of investigation in the debit card fraud cases, a team had been to Nagaland and Assam after tracing the account numbers of the accused persons. All 40 bank accounts were opened in State Bank of India branches. The team collected the addresses of the account holders from the banks and went to the respective places.

They were shocked to learn that all the account holders used fake IDs,” said detective department DCP Avinash Mohanty. The DCP said that earlier, in several cases the teams identified the account holders who were receiving commission from the accused and nabbed them.

“This is something different. How can they open accounts like that? Banks also should follow certain rules under KYC (Know Your Customer) norms mandated by RBI. We have written a letter along with the Crime Investigation Department to RBI,” the DCP said.