Cyber-crime police have arrested an inter-state fraudster Mirzapur, U.P who duped victim to the tune of Rs 694000 in the name of selling black pepper at India Mart; in the name of black pepper and dryfruits, scores of people have been cheated.
The accused has cheated, several victims across different stated and is active for more than 1 year. Accused used to change location by taking rented houses in Noida, Lucknow and Mirzapur.
The accused was identified as Asif alias Mohammad Irfan of Kotwali Mirzapur. Taking prompt action by the police an amount of Rs 5.72 lakh was freeze in the fraudster’s account.
A complaint was made by Jitendra Saxena resident of Bhopal complained that Tarun Kumar, the operator of a firm named GJ Traders on India Mart, was contacted to buy black pepper and Tarun Kumar was contacted on the phone with 2 tonnes of black pepper.
A deal was settled to buy 2 tonnes of black pepper at the rate of Rs 340 per kg to the complainant and fraudulently collected a total of Rs 694000 from the complainant in 2 different bank accounts of firms named GJ Traders and Shivalik Traders.
On the basis of the information received from the bank, the offense against the users of bank account and mobile numbers was registered by police. The police have recovered 2 mobiles phones, 1 SIM card and 2 ATM cards used in the fraud.