The team of Cyber Crime Branch, Bhopal, arrested a bank account holder accused of custom fraud of Rs 71 lakh by making friends on social media, in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh two mastermind foreign nationals have been arrested earlier.

The accused had opened a current account in the name of Irshad Enterprises and sold the account to fraudsters by taking commission.

The accused use the account holder's account to fraud people and take the defrauded amount. Transactions worth lakhs of rupees have taken place in the accused's account.

Applicant Narshe Mudgal lodged a complaint that a foreign person befriended my sister Preeti Sharma, resident of Melbourne, Australia, through social media and on the pretext of sending her a valuable gift of Rs 1 crore through parcel trapper her by two unknown persons and in the name of sending the parcel, delivering the parcel and to receive that parcel, money was deposited in 13 different bank accounts in the name of parcel delivery charge, anti money laundering fee, anti terrorism certificate, tax etc. Deposited an amount of approximately Rs 71 lakh.

Later those persons switched off their mobile phones etc. During the investigation of the complaint submitted by the applicant, bank accounts, mobile numbers of the non-applicants and other technical information have been obtained. All 13 bank accounts and mobile numbers.

The case is a big organized crime. By befriending women through social sites Facebook and WhatsApp and asking them to send valuable gifts/foreign money through parcels and posing as customs officers to collect parcel delivery charges, anti-money laundering fees, anti-terrorism certificate, tax on valuable foreign items in the parcels. In the name of Adi, the victim woman was defrauded of Rs 71 lakh in 13 different bank accounts. The accused bank account holder, who was arrested for the crime, opened a current account in the bank and sold it to fraudsters by taking commission. Fraud transactions worth lakhs of rupees were done by the fraudster in the said bank account.

On the basis of technical information in crime investigation by the team of Cyber Crime District Bhopal, on March 31 arrested  Mohammad Irshad, the holder of the bank account used in the crime, has been arrested from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.

In the case, two foreign national (Nigerian) accused 1. Abuh Marvelous(23) and Joseph Diaz (30) have been arrested earlier by the Bhopal cyber team. In the case, a foreign accused Yapo Michael alias Prospa resident of D-7 Rajhansh Vihar Vikas Nagar Uttam Nagar Phase-2 Delhi is absconding, efforts are being made to arrest him.