Online air ticket fraud: ATS clueless

Mumbai: The anti-terrorism squad (ATS), which arrested eight persons in connection with an online air ticket booking fraud, is yet to establish the identity of the Kazakhstan-based accused who allegedly provided credit card numbers to those arrested.
The squad, even after keeping the accused in custody for over one-and-half months, is yet to establish how many air tickets were booked through the internet. Also, since no one has lodged a complaint, it is not known who suffered losses due to the fraud. A police constable himself became the complainant in the case.The prime concern of the ATS is detection of terrorism-related cases, seizure of narcotics and fake currency. However, this is the first time that the squad is busy probing a cyber crime.
Interestingly, the cyber crime investigation cell (CCIC) of the city crime branch is unaware of this case. In 2007, the CCIC had assisted the Economic Offences Wing to detect an online ticket booking racket by tracing the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the accused. Generally, cases related to credit card fraud and computer are dealt by police stations with assistance from the CCIC.
25/02/08 Mateen Hafeez/Times of India

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Feb 2008, Safety Feb 2008