Tag: Duping

Hyderabad: Punjagutta fake call center duping unemployed busted

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Hyderabad: The city police on Saturday busted a fake call center being used to dupe unemployed youth in the name of data entry jobs in Punjagutta.
Police arrested Gadagoni Chakaradhar Goud, Ganesh and Shravan along with 32 tele-callers of which 11 were women.
Goud, a native of Siddipet’s Bachupally, had rented a house in Panjagutta for Rs 1,30,000 per month and hired tele-callers from four states – Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamilnadu.

He used mobile phones bought from Jagadish market and procured SIM cards from one Krishna Murthy, at the price of Rs 1,000 for each one. Murthy linked the Airtel payment bank account to every SIM card he sold.
The tele-callers would call people and inform them about the data entry jobs with a monthly salary of Rs 20,000 to 25,000.
They informed the candidates that they would have to complete a simple task successfully and thereafter were asked to deposit an amount of Rs 2,500 to claim a salary of Rs 25,000.
After the victims sent the Rs 2,500 tele-callers would avoid their calls and discard the SIM cards after 45 days. The old SIMs would be discarded and replaced by new SIMs.
The fake call center scammed unemployed youth of Rs 50 lakhs in the month of April. Fourteen laptops, 148 mobile phones, 3 four-wheelers and Rs 1.03 lakhs cash were seized.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 29, 2023
Customer care fraud: 5 held from Jamtara for duping over 2,500 people

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New Delhi: Five men were arrested from Jamtara in Jharkhand for allegedly duping more than 2,500 people by posing as customer care executives of banks and e-commerce websites, the Delhi Police said on Wednesday.
A sim cards supplier was also arrested from Murshidabad in West Bengal, they said.
The accused posted their mobile phone numbers as the customer care helplines of banks and e-commerce sites on the internet. Once they got the access to a victim’s number registered with a bank, they would siphon off money from his/her account, police said.

Nijamudin Ansari (23), Afroj Alam (23), Mohammad Amir Ansari (22), Sarfaraj Ansari (22) and Afroj Ansari (22) were arrested from Jamtara while Nasim Malitya (31) was nabbed from Murshidabad, they said.
A total of 12,500 pre-activated sim cards were provided to the fraudsters in Jamtara in one year by Malitya, police said, adding that more than 21,000 sim cards were recovered from Malitya.
According to police, a complainant, presently residing in Dubai, had come to Delhi to visit his daughter.
He wanted to get the bank passbook of her daughter updated and searched for the customer care number on the internet. When he called on the number, the person on the other end, posing as the customer care executive, asked him to download ‘anydesk’ application on his phone for further assistance, a senior police officer said.
The fraudster then asked him to log into his net banking account following which, they made two unauthorised transactions of Rs 9.5 lakh and Rs 50,000, police said.

During the investigation, police found that the fraudsters used the call forwarding method and changed the webpage customer phone numbers frequently in order to hide their locations.
On April 11, a raid was conducted at Jamtara in Jharkhand along with a team of Jharkhand Police and the accused were nabbed while they were making calls from an isolated place in Nawadih village, Karmatar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (outer north) Ravi Kumar Singh said.
It was revealed that sim cards were supplied after activation from Murshidabad and in a single phone, more than 300 SIMs were activated in a day, the DCP said.
One fraudster used to keep three to four smartphones for calling at a time and choose a remote place in village Nawadih, Karmatar in Jamtara, police said.
Nijamudin Ansari was previously involved in a cyber case of Jamatara and remained in jail for four months. He is one of the masterminds of this case. He used to pose as a senior bank manager, police added.
Police said so far, close to Rs 20 lakh that was siphoned off by the accused has been tracked and a refund process initiated.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 19, 2023
Nigerian national held for duping Gurugram woman of Rs 2 lakh in customs fraud

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Gurugram: A Nigerian national was arrested for duping a Gurugram woman of Rs 2 lakh on the pretext of custom clearance after they met on a matrimonial site, police said on Monday.
The accused, identified as Ignatus Ngosine, was arrested from Delhi on Sunday night, they said.
According to the complainant, she started talking to the accused, who posed as a project manager working with a Turkish company, in March, police said.

The accused, who introduced himself as Shiva Jhadav from India, asked the woman for her address saying that he wanted to send her some gifts. The complainant then received a call from one Sunita who posed as a customs officer from Mumbai Airport, they said.
The fraudster told the complainant that some parcels have been received from Turkey in her name and asked her to pay Rs 38,500 for custom clearance.
She also said that if I did not pay the clearance then she will be arrested by the police and I paid the amount twice, the woman said in her complaint.
On March 20, the victim received another call from the same woman demanding Rs 1,35,000 for custom certificate clearance, she alleged.
“Due to pressure I again paid the amount and later they demanded Rs 2.5 lakh more and then I found myself duped and moved to police,” she said in her complaint.

An FIR was registered under sections 419 (cheating by impersonation), 420 (cheating), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code at cybercrime, south police station on Friday, police said.
“The accused, along with other gang members, is involved in this kind of fraud and he had cheated many women. We are questioning him to solve other incidents,” said Subhash Boken, spokesperson of Gurugram police.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 3, 2023
Man held for duping women devotees of Vaishno Devi

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New Delhi: A man who duped 50 to 60 women devotees on the pretext of providing them a tour package to Vaishno Devi has been held by the Delhi Police.
The accused identified as Madhur Kumar used to target women devotees during Navratri and other festivals.
Rohit Meena, DCP of Shahdara district, said that the accused used to spread captivating message on social media to dupe women devotees.
The official said that they got a complaint in this respect from one Anamika Sharma. She told the police that she got a message on a Facebook group about a tour package to ‘Mata Vaishnao Devi’.
“The tour offer being very captivating i.e Rs 1300 per person including bus charges and meals. And after reaching Vaishno Devi, horse service was also said to be available. She decided to take the offer and deposited the amount online on the provided QR Code by the accused in the message on the Facebook group,” the official said.
The victim stated that gathering point of the journey was near Shahadara Metro Station from where they would board a luxury bus.
On the decided date when the complainant along with other 24 women reached on the scheduled place, she found that there was no bus and organiser was also missing.
Soon she found a group of other women was also standing there in search of the same bus. They called on the accused number which was switched off.

“There, they all came to know that they all have deposited the amount on the same mobile number/QR Code Scanner of the cheater and have been cheated/duped on pretext of ‘VAISHNO DEVI YATRA AND DARSHAN’. Total 50 to 60 women devotees were cheated by the accused using the same modus operandi so far,” the official said.
The police collected all the relevant information regarding the incident from the cheated victims. All Bank details and number of the cheater were analysed. After the analysis and through technical evidences, police succeeded in identifying the cheat as Madhur Kumar, a resident of Panipat, Haryana. The team raided on his hideout and arrested him from Panipat.
“Madhur told the police that he wanted to make easy money and duped women devotees on the pretext of sending them to Vaishno Devi tour.
He further disclosed that he shared the QR code scanner to the victims, this QR code belonged to his brother-in-law namely Tanu who lived at Kurukshetra. From Tanu, the cheated amount was disbursed to various accounts through UPI. Madhur would later receive his share in cash from them,” the police said.
Further from the mobile phone of the accused, it was revealed that he was preparing next Vaishno Devi Tour in the month of April by using same modus operandi.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 26, 2023
Lookout circular issued against man for duping people via Dubai-based betting app

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Bhubaneswar: A Lookout Circular was issued against a person who was accused of duping around 800 people of crores of rupees through a betting app operated from Dubai.
The Bureau of Immigration (BoI) issued the Lookout Circular, used by authorities to restrict the movement of a travelling person who is wanted, at the request of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha police.
The agency on Thursday said it will reward anyone giving credible information leading to the arrest of the accused, identified as Md Saif who has several addresses in India.
The EOW has lodged an FIR based on the complaint of about 800 investors of Odisha’s Ganjam district who were allegedly duped by the accused.
They were lured into putting their money into 18football.com, a betting/gaming website and a mobile app, with a promise of a three per cent daily compound return on investment. Besides, they were told that they will get different types of bonuses, the EOW said.
They were asked to bet money on some football matches advised by the website/app. They were also provided with “mentors” to assist them in betting.
The 18football.com scam involved people across the state and the fraud amount involved is suspected to be more than Rs 1000 crore, out of which EOW has been able to trace transactions of approximately Rs 300 crore till now.
The operators of the app were engaged in social work and charity in rural areas to make people believe that it was a bonafide organisation.

“The fraudsters initially paid the promised return to the investors. When the membership increased, they stopped making any payment and closed the app. They used multiple shell companies to route the ill-gotten money,” the EOW said in a statement.
One such company was based in Kolkata and its two directors were arrested earlier.
“They had confessed to have got small amounts of commission to run the shell company and received orders from Md Saif from Dubai,” the statement added.
Anyone giving credible information on phone no 8249600495, leading to the arrest of the accused, will be suitably awarded, the agency said, adding that name and details of the informer will be kept secret.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 9, 2023
Fake Flight Lt held for duping over 100 youth on pretext of IAF career

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New Delhi: A man, impersonating a Flight Lieutenant and duping over 100 unemployed youth in the name of providing a career in the Indian Air Force, has been arrested, a Delhi Police official said on Thursday.
The accused has been identified as Kamal Sharma, 39, a resident of Vikas Vihar in west Delhi.
According to police, a grievance was reported on Cyber Crime Reporting Portal from a female complainant, who stated that she had come across a person through online mode who runs an NGO namely “We Eliminate Poverty Now”.
“After some time, he introduced himself as an Air Force gazetted Officer (Flying Lieutenant) and defrauded her of Rs 12 lakh in the name of a job in the Indian Air Force. The man, Kamal, also sent a letter for medical examination and letter of appointment to the complainant via WhatsApp and mail,” Deputy Commissioner of Police, Outer North, Ravi Kumar Singh, said.
“But later on, after a long time when she had lost her hope to have a job in IAF, she started requesting her money back from the accused but in vain. Thereafter she got a complaint lodged. After a preliminary enquiry, an FIR was registered in the matter and investigation was taken up,” he said.
During the investigation, a police team tasked with investigation collected WhatsApp chat history screenshots, mail id details, bank and UPI transactions history.
“Sharma used to communicate to the complainant only via WhatsApp calls and chats. The details were sought from WhatsApp, Banks and Wallets. On the technical leads, the accused was traced out at Bengaluru in a hotel with a fake Identity Card of Flying Lieutenant and three smartphones,” said the DCP.
He was arrested and he was brought to Delhi after obtaining transit remand.

“Raids were conducted at Sharma’s rented accommodations at Chhatarpur and police recovered an IAF uniform (with name plate, ranks, badges, caps), air pistol gun with five bullets, different stamps, IAF letterheads, call letters, IAF family dependent card and other incriminating documents,” said the DCP.
The DCP further said that Sharma is a habitual offender and three FIRs are also registered against him in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
Sharma was well versed with the internal information of the IAF and using it to defraud people in the name of a lucrative career in the service.
Police investigation done so far has revealed that he had defrauded candidates from different cities like Bengalurue, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmadabad, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Panaji, Kochi, Bidar, Patna, Jammu, and Belgaum.
“He used to meet people in IAF uniform in order to influence them,” said the official, adding that investigation of the case is in progress.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 23, 2023
Hyderabad: Three arrested for duping students of Rs 2 crore

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Hyderabad: Three people were arrested for duping 32 Indian students studying at various universities in Canada and the USA to the tune of Rs 2 crore.
According to police, the accused – Devarashetti Pedda Venkateshwarlu, Devarashetti Gautam and Kohirkar Nilesh – were guilty of cheating students by promising to pay their semester fees in Canada and USA through fraudulent credit card transactions.
Police said that Gautam collected details of students studying in the two countries through various WhatsApp groups. He then convinced a few of them that he would help them in paying their fees and asked them to send their bank details.
After receiving the details, Gautam sent it to Nilesh who then passed on the information to a Zibron residing in Dubai. Zibron used fraudulent credit cards to pay the fees, which naturally did not work. The students were asked to repay the fees by their universities.
Meanwhile, all the amount was transferred to Gautam’s ather’s account. Gautam took his share and sent the rest to Zibron via crypto money.
On receiving a complaint, the cyber crime team caught the trio and seized five mobile phones, four cheque books, five credit cards and five debit cards.
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February 7, 2023
2 Self-Styled Political Activists Arrested For Duping People On Pretext Of Providing Police Jobs

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SRINAGAR: Police on Saturday said that two persons, projecting themselves as political activists, were arrested for allegedly duping people on the pretext of providing government jobs in Pattan area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
“On January 11, Police received information that two self-styled political activists from Pattan area are demanding money on the assurances that they will arrange government jobs and are providing fake appointment orders and are also threatening the general public,” news agency GNS quoted police statement as having said.
Police swung into action and promptly registered a case under relevant sections in police station Pattan, the statement said.
“During course of investigation, Police after utilizing all technical and human intelligence and strenuous efforts arrested two accused namely Ubaid Nazir Sofi and Mohammad Iqbal.”
Police said that it was learnt during interrogation that these “scamsters were cheating common people on the pretext of giving jobs in police department and taking huge amount of money from them.”
“Once the victim started asking money back, they used to issue threats to them. Further investigation into the matter is on,” it added.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

January 28, 2023