Police raided various villages and arrested 10 cyber criminals along with eleven mobile phones, SIM cards, cash etc in Deoghar district Thursday.
Superintendent of Police of Deoghar, Ashwini Kumar Sinha said that on the basis of the secret information he received, 10 cyber criminals were arrested by raiding various villages of Chitra, Patharadda police station and Jashidih police station area of the district.
He said police have recovered thirteen mobile phones, 22 SIM cards, one ATMs, a two-wheeler and cash Rs 45,500 from the arrested cyber criminals.
The official said that the identity of the arrested cyber criminals is Mahendra Das (22), Sameer Mishra (28) Gram-Sonatar, Ajit Kumar Mandal (21), Vinod Kumar Das (24) Umesh Das (27) , Pramod Kumar0 Das,( 29) village Ghaghra, Subash Kumar Das (26), village Govindpur Mantu Kumar Das (21) Village- Bhadwa, Thana Madhupur, besides Ajay Kumar Das (24) and Raj Kumar Das (24) , Both have been identified as Village- Dhumdubi and Liludih.
SP Deoghar informed that these people have become customer service officers of various banks and call people on their mobiles in the name of KYC update and get all the information of the bank and empty the amount kept in the account of the people within minutes.
Not only this, these people go to the site of various electronic Apps including phone pe/ Paytm Money Request, Team
Viewer, UPI Wallets and others on Google search table and put their mobile number in place of the customer officer’s number, added the SP.