16-year-old ruled cyber fraud gang from Mumbai

AHMEDABAD: Ajay is 16 and studies inClass X. But let him loose in cyberspace and he's a millionnaire, leavinghundreds of credit card holders broke across the globe.Ajay waspicked up from Mumbai on Thursday and detained by the Gujarat police in ahacking case that left them baffled with its global spread.This StAnn's student from Mulund has mastered the ability to hack online shoppingwebsites and channel the money paid by cyber buyers into his ownaccount.The racket surfaced when Ahmedabad crime branch sleuths wereinvestigating a case of hacking of a popular online shopping site and arrestedthree boys in the city. They turned out to be part of Ajay���sgang.Probe has revealed that his network spreads across Mumbai,Hyderabad, Bangalore and Ahmedabad. His mentors live in the US, Vietnam andother countries.Ajay, the son of an employee of a textile firm,would give instructions to Wahid Khan, a resident of Kalupur, and Shahid Khanand Haadi Ghoghai of Juhapura, both in Ahmedabad, until they were arrested onThursday. Ajay had taught them to create fake accounts and crack intoothers��� credit card accounts to make big bucks.His prowess inhacking high-security and government websites let Ajay into a hacking community,which gave him access to a huge database of credit card Customer VerificationValue (CVV) numbers of prominent banks across the globe.Ajay���stools included his laptop, a communicator and a cellphone. But, police say,Ajay���s PC has no data and he has covered his tracks. All theevidence available is from Shahid Khan���s laptop which has folders andfiles that hide cracked passwords and the IP addresses of internet domains thatwere hacked into for fraudulent financial transactions.Ajay got intouch with online fraudsters during gaming and was hooked fast. He has told thepolice that after connecting with international hackers in the US, Vietnam, andother countries, he spent over 15 hours a day on the computer trying to figureout how it worked.���He has a database of over 4,000international credit cardholders, their CVV numbers and expiry dates,���said a senior crime branch official.He fooled the cyber police byusing proxy servers for illegal transactions. ���After making moneyillegally at the online shopping giant���s expense for over four months, hegot in touch with Shahid Khan and Wahid Khan in Ahmedabad and let them into somesecrets of the fraud,������ said the official.(Some nameshave been changed to protect identities.)