A new case of cyber fraud has come to light from the country’s capital Delhi. Here a person has been duped of Rs 91 lakh. After this, the police investigated the matter and arrested a gang. This gang was cheating in the name of cryptocurrency and stock market. Bank employees are also involved in this.
Police have arrested seven people on Sunday. This includes a bank employee as well. They lure people with high returns and siphon off several lakhs from their bank accounts. Deputy Commissioner of Police Hemant Tiwari in Delhi Police’s unit Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operation (IFSO) said that a person had filed a police complaint. He said that he had been duped of Rs 91 lakh. The cyber thug lured the victim with high returns and then emptied his bank account.
First a group was created and then the victim was made the victim
To make the victim their prey, the accused first added him to a WhatsApp group. In this group, people were given advice related to the stock market and to rob the victim, it is shown that many people are becoming millionaires. After this, by offering different temptations, people are asked to open an account on one of their platforms and then they are asked to invest in different shares and stock market or cryptocurrency.
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Case of fraud of Rs 91 lakh
After this, the same thing happened with a person from Delhi, the victim had to face a fraud of Rs 91 lakh. He contacted the police. The victim lodged a police complaint. The police was investigating another case, where they had frozen an account. After this, cyber thugs emailed the bank manager posing as a customer and asked to defroze the account i.e. reopen it.
Police found the connection between the two cases during investigation
During the investigation, the police found that both these cases could be connected to each other. After this, the police investigated that account and found out that the bank account was in the name of Gaurav Trading. There were 46 lakh rupees in it.
Bank manager received an email from a fake officer
Police said that a mail was sent to the branch manager using a government email ID and he was asked to defrost his bank account. The person sending the fake email introduced himself as an investigation officer. After this, the branch manager got suspicious and when he checked, he found out that this was a fake email.
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This is how the police got success
After investigation, the police found some digital evidence. After this, the police identified and arrested two people, whose names were Ajay and Mohit. After this, Shankar, Pratyaksh Koshar, Manish Jawala, Shreyansh Pandit and Dinesh were arrested. Police recovered Rs 5.5 lakh from them. Police is still investigating the matter.