In a major breakthrough, the Gurugram Police has 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 Gurugram police have registered a case at Civil lines police station against accused Surender Mandal (26) under various sections of the IPC. 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, police have learned that the accused had duped with Rs2.50 lakh from the Gurugram region only.
A police official revealed that the accused used to call a person and enquire about bank details of their accounts. The scamster’s nearly made 50 to 250 phone calls in a day. However, they basically dialed the number which relates to Gurugram, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab.
Interestingly, the scamster used to trap people during the banking hours. “To make his scheme look like foolproof , the accused used local villager identity to get the local SIM cards thereafter they used the same number to make calls,” said Anand Yadav, cyber crime cell, Gururgam.
“We are receiving complaints from the local people about the fraud calls asking their bank details. Taking this cognisance, we put surveillance over the shortlisted numbers, it was shocking for us as well that our cyber vigilance have monitored all the calls from Jharkhand and Bihar,” he added.
“There are 15 to 20 youngster involved in such kind of fraud. They start their work from morning 7am to 5pm in the evening. They did this because they want to improve their lifestyle. The
accused is also in fluent in English and speaks good Hindi as well,” said Sub-Inspector Sandeep Kumar.
“We have arrested 55 people 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 Rs5 lakh from the possession of one accused,” Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Station House Officer, Ahilyapur, Jharkhand police said.
last year, Gurugram police cyber cell has registered 2,142 complaints overall. In which 1,350 complaints registered against online fraud which includes credit cards, debit cards, email hacking complaint were 100, cheating case 225. While this year the the cyber cell has registered 2,200 complaint till November 2016 and the cell has cracked 1,600 case as well rest complaint are under investigation.