Acting on a tip-off from an HSBC Bank official, the Oshiwara police arrested eight people for their alleged involvement in a credit card fraud racket.

According to the Oshiwara police, Nayan Chandrakant Bhagdev (34), a manager with the HSBC Bank at Malad, had informed them that he had come across a variety of dubious credit card transactions in shopping centres at malls in the Oshiwara Lokhandwala area. The manager had also received information that a gang of fraudsters possessing fake credit cards would be visiting the Kamdhenu Shopping Centre at Lokhandwala on April 26.

“Acting on the information, a team of police officers laid a trap near the place. At the place, our officers saw an Indica car with six men inside approaching. Out of the six, two men got down and were given two credit cards by the others in the car. They were signalled to enter the shopping centre. Finding their movements suspicious, the officers who had laid the trap arrested them,” said Inspector Datta Sankhe of the Oshiwara police station.

The police seized a laptop with pen drive, other computer accessories, 14 fake credit cards, 2 fake driving licences, fake RTO stamps, fake PAN cards and a Chinese-make scanner used for transferring credit card data, Sankhe said.

The arrested have been identified as Sameer Dave (26), Sudhir Naikare (27), Mahesh Sharma (39), Gangesh Pathak (21), Anand Mishra (26) and Harsh Badgujar (24). Following their interrogation, the police on Monday arrested two others — identified as Bhayandar residents Harshal Kapadia and Harshid Parekh.