Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], February 1 (ANI): Cyber fraudsters posing as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers digitally ‘arrested’ a 71-year-old retired official of Uttarakhand Jal Nigam and duped him of Rs 64.65 lakh, police mentioned.
The accused threatened the sufferer with arrest and imprisonment on false prices of cash laundering, forcing him to switch the cash.
Speaking to ANI, STF SSP Navneet Bhullar mentioned, ‘An FIR has been registered on the premise of the sufferer’s criticism.’ He added that an investigation is underway to hint the fraudsters and get well the quantity.
Meanwhile, the Cyber Crime Police Station, Goa, arrested two individuals in reference to a serious inter-state cyber fraud case involving a ‘digital arrest’ rip-off price Rs 1.42 crore, police mentioned on Saturday. The arrested accused have been recognized as Ashadul Islam (24) and Yasmina Ahmed (32), residents of Marigaon, Assam. The case, registered below Sections 318(4) and 319(2) learn with related provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 66-D of the Information Technology Act, is predicated on a criticism filed by a resident of Bicholim in North Goa.
According to police, the accused impersonated officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Supreme Court, utilizing a number of WhatsApp numbers to put the sufferer below a faux ‘digital arrest.’ By creating concern and exerting psychological stress, they coerced the complainant into transferring Rs 1,42,04,868 to a number of financial institution accounts. Following an in depth technical evaluation of communications between the fraudsters and the sufferer, a particular staff of the Goa Crime Branch traced the accused to Nagaon district in Assam.
The arrests had been carried out by a staff led by Police Inspector Vikas Deykar, with Police Constables Arif Aga, Rupesh Gaikwad and Prakash. Police mentioned that in verification, it emerged that each accused had earlier been arrested in an FIR registered at Nagaon Police Station, Assam, below the BNS for related cyber fraud actions. In that case, the Assam Police seized 358 SIM playing cards, 5 cellphones, one Wi-Fi router, one DVR, and one laptop computer.
The similar cellphones had been discovered to have been used within the Goa cyber fraud case as effectively, and the seizure shall be formally linked to the Goa Police investigation. Investigators additional revealed that the identical cell numbers had been linked to a different ‘digital arrest’ criticism filed in Goa, involving a fraudulent quantity of Rs 63.50 lakh. (ANI)