Guwahati, April 18 -- The Mumbai police crime branch on Thursday apprehended five fraudsters from Assam, allegedly involved in a large-scale credit card scam amounting to Rs 1.26 crore, said an official.

The official stated that the individuals allegedly used the identities of individuals with high CIBIL scores to fraudulently obtain credit cards from a bank and subsequently maxed them out.

"Following the FIR registered by the victims and the banks, the Mumbai police crime branch (unit III) launched a probe last year and has been investigating the matter", the official asserted.

Upon investigating the matter, authorities discovered that the accused had used counterfeit documents to acquire 55 credit cards and subsequently used them to ...