BANGALORE: Five persons were arrested on charges of phishing bank accounts, police said on Thursday. Cyber Crime Police Station, CID, Bangalore, had received complaints from some bank account holders who had availed online banking facility that they had fallen prey to the phishing attack, the police stated. These account holders had their accounts in different banks across the city, Director General of CID, Special Units and Economic Offences, Bangalore, Shankar Bidari said.During the course of investigation, it was revealed that when the account holders had responded to the phishing mail, they could not subsequently access their accounts as their contact information, passwords, contact phone numbers and other details had been changed.This had been done by the fraudsters so that the actual account holder was not intimated by the bank about the fraudulent transactions.Later, the fraudsters had transferred the amount available in these accounts to several beneficiary accounts in Mumbai and northern, north-eastern and other states. The Phishing mails have originated from Nigeria and other foreign countries.Of the five arrested recently following complaints from different account holders, three - Abdul Khair Khan (aged 31), Mohammed Khafil Syed (32) and Durgesh Rajput Tiwari (21) - were from Mumbai, while Pratik D Maurya (24) was from Thane and Saleem Khan (36) from Hyderabad.‘Phishing’ is a technique which is deployed to steal confidential financial information like bank account numbers, net banking passwords, credit card numbers and personal ID details.
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