Now cyber thugs have started making people their prey in the name of online shopping and lucky draws. Ranchi Police has busted one such gang and arrested three of its members. This gang has cheated about 150 people across the Country in the name of lucky draw and online shopping. All the arrested people are residents of Bihar.
Addressing a press meet Ranchi SSP, Kishore Kaushal said that the police had received information about cyber fraud from people in this case. “A team was formed under the leadership of Sadar DSP, Prabhat Ranjan and Cyber DSP, Yashodhara for the investigation. Apart from Sadar police station In-Charge, Shyam Kishore, other people were also included in this when this team investigated the matter and arrested the criminals,” he added.
Kaushal further said that during interrogation, the criminals informed the police that they had come to Ranchi from Bihar and lived in a rented house. “On interrogation of the police, they said that the gang members collect the data of the people who do online shopping. Get their name and address. After this, fake lucky draw coupons and pamphlets are printed in the names of the customers of the online website. It also has a QR code. On scanning this code, the customers used to receive a thank you message for winning an amount of Rs 8, 40,000 in the mobile. Along with this, a congratulatory message of winning the amount was also printed on scratching the lucky draw. After this the customer used to contact the given WhatsApp number to get the reward amount. Cyber criminals sitting in this position used to make their next move. Till this time, on the pretext of GST, service tax, registration charges, other types of charges, they used to get money from people on the bank account given by them after this, used to withdraw the amount from the ATM,” he added.The SSP said that so far this gang has made 150 people from across the Country a victim of fraud. “The Police has also interrogated 13 people in this. These people have informed the police about being cheated. Now the police are also contacting other victims of the fraud. The Police will get information from them soon. In the investigation so far, it has come to light that not a single person of the state has been duped by cyber criminals,” he added.