In a major breakthrough, Gurugram police have arrested a person from Giridih district in Jharkhand, who was allegedly involved in an online bank fraud case.
According to the police official, the accused and his associates had opted Naxalite-prone area because they felt that they were safe from the police raids.
The city police have recovered one laptop, 6 phones, SIM cards, one bank passbook, 2 ATM cards and Rs6,500 from his possession. During the preliminary investigation, the police have learned that the accused had duped with Rs2.50 lakhs from the Gurugram region itself.
The police official reveals that the accused used to call people and inquire about bank details of their accounts during banking hours to make it seem authentic. He was fluent in English and he could speak a good Hindi as well,” said Sub Inspector Sandeep kumar.
“In order to mask his identity, the accused used local identities to get SIM cards and thereafter used the same number to call people,” said Anand Yadav, cyber crime cell, Gururgam.
“We were receiving complaints from locals about the fraud calls. Taking cognizance, we mounted surveillance on the shortlisted numbers. All the calls were originating from Jharkhand and Bihar,” he added.
Gurugram Police have registered a case in Civil line Police station against accused Surender Mandal (26) under various sections of the IPC.
Interestingly, the scammers don’t use any office setup to makes fraud calls. Usually, they sit down under a tree and makes calls to urbanites in metro cities” said a senior official of Gurugram Police
last year, Gurugram Police cyber cell had registered 2142 complaints of this nature. Of these, 1350 complaints were registered against online fraud, including those relating to credit cards, debit cards, email hacking complaint stood at 100, while there were 225 cheating cases. This year the Cyber cell has registered 2200 complaints upto November 2016 and the cell has cracked 1600 cases .
Those involved in the scam are from the villages of Deoghar, Bengabad, Giridit, Jamtra, Ahilyapur, all from Jharkhand.
“There are 15 to 20 youngsters involved in such kind of fraud. They start their work from morning 7 am to 5 pm in the evening. They did this because they want to improve their lifestyle.
“This is a typical case of duping people, where the culprit calls different people in a day and to inform them that their credit or debit card has been blocked. The culprit would convince the concerned person to disclose their pin number to the former and would access their account.
“We have arrested 55 persons who were related to bank fraud case in the past six months. They had duped an IPS officer from Mumbai police also. We have recovered Rs 5 lakh in possession of one accused,” Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Station House Officer, Ahilyapur, Jharkhand Police said.