Team News Riveting
New Delhi, September 8
In a nation-wide crackdown, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) had busted an operation of illegal software called “Real Mango” used for cornering confirmed Railway reservation.
The software has now been fully decimated.
In view of the apprehension of increase in touting activity after restart of the passenger services, drive against touts was intensified by the RPF. Operation of an illegal software called “Rare Mango” (later changed its name to “Real Mango”) was revealed last month during action against touts by the field units of RPF.
The units of North Central Railway (NCR), Eastern Railway (ER) and Western Railway (WR) apprehended some suspects and initiated the process of understanding and exposing the operation of RareMango/Real Mango Software. In the course of systematic processing, the working of the illegal software could be ascertained.
The officials said the “Real Mango” software bypasses V3 and V2 captcha and it synchronises bank OTP with help of a mobile app and feeds it to the requisite form automatically. The software auto-fills the passenger details and payment details in the forms.
The RPF had apprehended 994 touts including 239 agents besides the Kingpin (system developer) and key managers involved in operation of this illegal software. It had blocked tickets worth more than Rs 87.70 lakh. Five key operatives of the illegal software have been arrested from West Bengal. The software has now been fully decimated.
