The Rourkela Cyber police have arrested five more accused involved in duping a former railway employee of Rs`15 lakh in 2021.
The arrested fraudsters were identified as Kamaluddin Ansari, Kutbul Ansari, Asarful Ansari, Md Samim Ansari and Jamil Ansari. All are residents of Jamtara district in Jharkhand.
Earlier, police had arrested Md Arif Ansari, Md Rajaul and Jamshed Ansari.
With the five arrests, the number of arrests in connection with the cases has risen to eight. Police said the arrests were made following investigations after a case was filed in this regard by the victim.
As per reports, one Nalindra Kumar Toppo from Biringatoli under Kutra police station lodged a police complaint in December 2021 alleging that he was duped of `15,56,000 through an online fraud.
Toppo stated in his complaint that he had taken voluntary retirement from Railway Service on May 1, 2021 and got `34,99,908 as retirement benefit which was credited to his SBI bank account.
On November 29, he got a phone call from an unknown number where the person identified himself as calling from the SBI Phone Pay cell, Delhi and was told that he had done online shopping worth Rs`20,000 which has been deducted from his account.
When Toppo denied having done any transaction and asked for a refund, the man sent a link to his number and asked him to download Anydesk application and not to share the OTP. As Toppo complied, an amount to the tune of `15,56,000 was allegedly deducted from three of his SBI accounts without his knowledge and consent.