Cyber Crime Bhopal has arrested two members of a gang from Tikamgarh who cheated people by advertising to sell iPhones at low prices on Instagram. The accused also used to advertise to sell iPhones at low prices on social media platforms with fake SIM cards.

For this, the accused used to activate two SIM cards on the documents of a consumer while selling SIM cards. One of these SIM cards was given to the consumer. While the other SIM card was sold to the gang selling iPhones at low prices at an arbitrary price.

Cyber Crime Team Bhopal officials said that Shahrukh and Nilesh, residents of Tikamgarh, work as SIM card sellers. Both of them used to set up stalls to sell SIM cards in the market in Tikamgarh. During this, the villagers who used to buy SIM cards and give documents for KYC to activate them, used to activate two SIM cards simultaneously on those documents. But, they used to give only one SIM card to the villagers. Also, the second SIM card activated in the name of an unknown villager was sold to cyber fraudsters. Shahrukh and Nilesh used to charge an arbitrary amount from cyber thugs for this SIM card.

Cyber Crime Team Bhopal officials said that 10 mobile phones, 68 SIM cards have been seized from accused Shahrukh and Nitesh. Apart from this, 2 bank passbooks, 5 cheque books, 3 bill books and 10 ATM cards of various banks have been recovered from the accused. Police are continuously raiding to arrest other accused who are absconding in the case. During police interrogation, the accused said that they used to put up a stall to sell SIM cards by putting umbrellas in the market.

On May 13, Hina Khan (name changed), a resident of Bhopal, lodged a complaint in Cyber Crime Bhopal. In this, she said that she saw an advertisement for selling mobile on Integrity_mobile on Instagram. After booking it, a WhatsApp number was received. With the instructions given on it, they transferred the money for mobile booking. After this, by calling on WhatsApp, fraud of Rs 188999 rupees was done through different means in the name of custom-pay, refund. Cyber Crime Police had registered a case on the complaint of Hina Khan.

Shahrukh (Tikamgarh) is a graduate who used to activate SIMs through KYC as an agent and make them available to other accused.

Nilesh Yadav (Tikamgarh) is 10th pass, he used to check SIM activation and make them available to other cyber accused.

About 15 days ago, Cyber Police had arrested 5 accused in this case from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.

About 15 days ago, Cyber Police had arrested 5 accused in this case from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh. They were arrested about 15 days ago

Ashish Yadav (Delhi), who is a graduate, apart from advertising on Instagram, used to contact customers through WhatsApp and prepare fake bills for fraud.

Ankit Namdev (Jhansi), who is a graduate, used to open fake accounts in his own name.

Ankit Kumar (Jhansi) is a 12th pass. He used to buy fake accounts and sell them to accused Ashish Yadav and when the fraud money came into the accounts, he used to withdraw cash from the accounts and deposit it in other accounts after deducting commission.

Abhishek Yadav (Madhya Pradesh) is a 12th pass.