Ahmedabad crime branch arrested two for credit card fraud

Ahmedabad crime branch arrested two persons on the charges of credit card fraud. The two accused Mayur Panchal and Shaktisinh Parmar used to dupe customers by promising new credit cards, generally golden credit cards. They used to tell customers that the golden credit card have high purchase limit so they should exchange their old credit cards with this new one. But the golden credit cards given to the customers were duplicates and the two using the old credit cards purchased electronic gadgets.

The crime branch arrested the duo on the complaint of Harshad Patel who lodged a complaint after receiving a bank statement which showed that he had made purchases worth Rs 93,000.

According to crime branch sources Parmar, used to work with Pathak Associates in CG road and would call the credit card holders and tell them about a new scheme in which their old card will replaced with new cards.

He would tell the card holder that a person from the company will visit them and replace their cards once a form is filled. At the time of visit Parmar used to replace customer’s card with duplicate golden credit cards in exchange for old ones. Crime branch PI, BC Solanki said, "Based on the complaint the two were arrested." Solanki further said, after assessing the bank statements the crime branch officials traced the duo through their mobile IMEI numbers.