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Cyber criminals arrested in Jamtara, Jharkhand on the input of Agra Range Cyber Cells have cheated nearly 50 crores from thousands of people of many states in ten years. Gang members became employees of banks, insurance, mobiles, wallet companies and used to intercept people through calls and messages. 2500 passbooks, debit cards and personal data of people have been recovered from them. Now the police is investigating in which places people were cheated.
Range Cyber Cell in-charge Shailesh Kumar Singh said that Naimul Haque, Anwar and Nizamuddin are the main accused among the accused arrested by Deoghar Cyber Cell. A total of 18 accused have been arrested by the police.
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The main accused had withdrawn Rs 24 lakh from the account of Mahant Kamal Goswami of Mathura. All these are running their network in Jamtara district of Jharkhand. This district is of rural environment. Police movement is also less here. Therefore, gang members act easily.
Gang members bring training from several centers in Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Faridabad to commit cyber crime. Cybercrimes are committed by way of providing insurance benefits, lotteries, issuing sims, downloading apps etc.
Withdraw money from accounts within a few hours, so that they get all the money before the victim’s account is blocked. Among the arrested accused is a bank officer who used to provide data of people to the gang.
The Deoghar police has sent a list of the recovered goods from the accused to Range Cyber Cell. These include 2500 bank passbooks, ATM cards, around 800 fake SIMs, 300 mobiles. The gang has been operating for ten years. In this way, there is a possibility of fraud of about Rs 50 crore from thousands of people of many states. Gang members will be questioned. After this, people will be able to know about the victims of fraud in Agra.
Sim was issued 24 lakhs
of Mahanta, Mahant Kamal Goswami, resident of Vrindavan police station of Mathura, complained in April about withdrawing 24 lakh rupees from bank account. This amount was drawn from net banking. Range Cyber Cell inspectors Shailesh Kumar Singh and Vishal Sharma investigated.
Kamal Goswami was sent a message on mobile with SIM swap software. In this, the number was asked to upgrade the SIM to continue. Kamal Goswami messaged the 21 digit number written behind the SIM. The criminals copied their photos from Facebook and created fake IDs. After issuing a second SIM card of the same number by issuing an application in the mobile company, withdraw money from the account through net banking.
Transferring funds from e-wallet to accounts
Kamal Goswami had net banking facility in his account. Through net banking, cyber criminals transferred Rs 24 lakh to seven e-wallets. However, the wallet could not withdraw money. Therefore, funds were sent to 11 bank accounts opened with fake names and addresses of Vardhman and Siliguri in West Bengal. 14 lakhs were withdrawn from these accounts.
The remaining amount was transferred to Deoghar’s bank accounts. The money was also withdrawn from the wallet company’s ATM. Due to the high value of ATMs of banks and e-wallets, more money was withdrawn. When Cyber Cell investigated, Deoghar’s three e-wallets came to know. Input about this was given to the cyber cell of Deoghar. After this, the team took action and apprehended the 18 accused.
Members get commission
Gang members keep 60% of the amount they get from the thugs. The remaining 40 per cent is held by account holders and those who provide data.
