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Case Study Three People held Guilty in Online Credit Card Scam

ustomer’s credit card details were misused through online means for booking
air-tickets. These culprits were caught by the city Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
Cin Pune. It is found that details misused were belonging to 100 people.

Mr. Parvesh Chauhan, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance officer had complained on behalf of
one of his customer. In this regard Mr. Sanjeet Mahavir Singh Lukkad, Dharmendra Bhika
Kale and Ahmead Sikandar Shaikh were arrested. Lukkad being employed at a private
institution, Kale was his friend. Shaikh was employed in one of the branches of State Bank
of India.
According to the information provided by the police, one of the customers received a SMS
based alert for purchasing of the ticket even when the credit card was being held by him.
Customer was alert and came to know something was fishy; he enquired and came to
know about the misuse. He contacted the Bank in this regards. Police observed involvement
of many Bank’s in this reference.
The tickets were book through online means. Police requested for the log details and got
the information of the Private Institution. Investigation revealed that the details were
obtained from State Bank of India . Shaikh was working in the credit card department; due
to this he had access to credit card details of some customers. He gave that information to
Kale. Kale in return passed this information to his friend Lukkad. Using the information
obtained from Kale Lukkad booked tickets. He used to sell these tickets to customers and
get money for the same. He had given few tickets to various other institutions.

Cyber Cell head DCP Sunil Pulhari and PI Mohan Mohadikar A.P.I Kate were involved in
eight days of investigation and finally caught the culprits.

In this regards various Banks have been contacted; also four airline industries were
contacted.

DCP Sunil Pulhari has requested customers who have fallen in to this trap to inform police
authorities on 2612-4452 or 2612-3346 if they have any problems.
Question

Research the whole case and analyse that the remedies or the actions taken were enough
according to you or not?

Source: deity.gov.in

14.9 Summary

 Digital signatures on tax returns, government contracts, and consumer agreements were
made legal with the Information Technology Act.
 Every business or agency accepting digital signatures must use software to create public
keys and private keys.
 The signatory to an agreement must enter a full name or public key before the name is
scrambled to create a private key.

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