A three member gang involved in selling SIM cards procured using fake documents was busted by cyber crime police Bhopal, gang members were arrested from Karera Shivpuri; gang has sold over 1000 SIM cards to cyber criminals in several states.
The gang would activate the SIM on fake documents and sold it in other states. The accused would use their own photo in the Aadhar card and use the name and address forged, the accused themselves get registered as a POS agent using the fake Aadhar card.
The accused would use the photograph of themselves as the POS agent and use Bhopal address in the POS agent.
In the investigation police have found that rhe accused have activated around 1200 SIMs in different names and addresses and sold it to cyber criminals.
During investigation of cyber crimes SIM cards using fake documents were found and it was found that gang was operating through 2 POS agents and 1 person who would do delivery.
The accused were identified as Hemant Lodhi, Dileep Gurjar and Rohit Tyagi. Police have recovered 10 mobile phones from the gang and have started search for the other members of gang. A complaint was lodged by Anil Sharma who was duped to the tune of Rs 1.16 lakh and during the investigated gang of cyber criminals was busted.
Providing modus operandi gang members revealed that SIM was activated on fake documents for which the accused first get the Aadhaar card prepared with the fake name and address, in which the name and address were used of some other person and the photo was used of the accused.
Based on the same documents, POS agents get themselves registered in the telecom company on fake names and addresses and after the POS agents are registered, they start SIM on fake Aadhar cards and sell them to cyber criminals in Delhi and other states.