The Crime Investigation Department (CID) has arrested two cyber criminals who committed fraud of Rs 63.98 lakh. The arrested cyber criminals include Rahul Tripathi and Dev Prakash, residents of Lucknow, UP.
Cyber Crime Police Station Case 105/2023 was registered on December 7, 2023. In the case registered, the Complainant had said that the cyber criminal had contacted her through Telegram. In which a part time job was offered to like Ludo and Fishdom and send screenshots. After which the task of liking the video was given.
To complete the task given through Telegram profile, they were asked to deposit money in various bank accounts. Then they were told that the money would be invested in cryptocurrency. The profit received from this will be shown on the global company's site global-171.in. After this, Vadini started seeing the invested money in the fake account, due to which she got deceived. To deceive, some money was deposited in his account, but later the deposit was stopped and in this way a total cyber fraud of Rs 63.98 lakh was done to him.
During CID investigation, the origin of the IP users of the transactions made from these bank accounts was found to be in Hong Kong and China. Taking immediate action, all the bank accounts involved in the case were frozen. After analysis, a total of Rs 88.93 lakh was frozen in all the bank accounts concerned.