A new case of cyber fraud has come to light from the country’s capital Delhi. Here a person has been defrauded of Rs 91 lakh. After this, when the police investigated the matter, they arrested a gang. This gang was committing fraud in the name of cryptocurrency and stock market. Bank employees are also included in this.
Police arrested seven people on Sunday. A bank employee is also included in this. They steal several lakhs from people’s banks by luring them with high returns. Hemant Tiwari, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operation (IFSO), a unit of Delhi Police, said that a person had lodged a police complaint. He told that he was cheated of Rs 91 lakh. The cyber thug lured the victim with high returns and then emptied his bank account.
First the group was formed and the victim was made the victim.
To make the victim a victim, the accused first included him in a WhatsApp group. In this group, people were given advice related to the stock market and in order to loot the victim, it was shown how many people are becoming millionaires. After this, by giving different inducements, people are asked to open an account on one of their platforms and then they are asked to invest in different shares and stock markets or cryptocurrencies.
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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 fraud of Rs 91 lakh. He contacted the police. Victim lodged a police complaint. The police were investigating another case, where they had frozen an account. After this, the cyber thugs emailed the bank manager posing as a customer and asked him to defreeze the account.
Police found connection between both the cases during investigation
During the investigation, the police found that both these cases could be connected to each other. After this, when the police investigated that account, they came to know that the bank account was in the name of Gaurav Trading. 46 lakh rupees are present in it.
Bank manager received email from fake officer
Police said that a mail was sent to the branch manager using a government email ID and asked to defreeze the bank account. The person sending the fake email introduced himself as an investigation officer. After this the branch manager became suspicious and when he checked, he came to know that it 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, Pratyaksha Kosar, Manish Javla, Shreyansh Pandit and Dinesh were arrested. Police recovered Rs 5.5 lakh from them. The police are still investigating the matter.