Ahmedabad resident arrested for duping 91 bank customers of 18 lakh

The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Cell Thursday arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly duping 91 customers of different banks to the tune of Rs 18.94 lakh by creating bogus agents of Eazypay company, a third party secure payment service for banks.

According to police, Prashant Shah, a resident of Sabarmati in Ahmedabad and owner of Utkarsh Human Resourcing Private Limited, allegedly created a database of Aadhaar cards and scanned fingerprints of hundreds of residents of Madhya Pradesh by promising them free electric bulbs under a fake scheme.

The accused then sold the data to people in Delhi and Madhya Pradesh who then used it to create bogus agents for Eazypay company.