KOLKATA: Cyber fraudsters are using a unique modus operandi to arrange loans for salaried people who approach them with bad CIBIL score.
Among their important clients are top IT executives and consultants of this city.
On Saturday, the cops arrested a vice-president of a tech major in connection of such a case.The accused with the promise of getting a hefty cut from the loan are now using the original Aadhaar and PAN card details of another person with an identical name (by hiding the fathers name) and submitting the same to collect the loan money.At times, these organized gangs even get a new Aadhaar card issued after changing the name of the claimant through a simple affidavit, said detective department officials.By the time the non-banking finance firms realize they have been duped the accused shut their shop and change their addresses.One such gang was busted a couple of days after the arrest of a branch manager, Sandip Das, of a Shakespeare Sarani branch of a private bank for obtaining personal loan worth Rs 1 crore by using forged documents and duping another private financial institution of Rs 96 lakh, said DC (Cyber) Atul Viswanathan.On Saturday, cops arrested an executive of an IT major, Niloy Kanti Sarkar, from Santoshpur for being a beneficiary.
He had a bad CIBIL score and was not getting a loan.
He had approached this gang that used original Aadhaar details of another person with identical name and raised the money, said an officer.