In Dehradun, a woman was digitally arrested and cheated of crores of rupees, STF investigated her horoscope, accused arrested from Haryana
The police has busted a gang that duped a woman of Dehradun by digitally arresting her and defrauding her of Rs 1 crore 70 lakh. The police has also arrested the accused from district Yamunanagar, Haryana. This gang had digitally arrested the woman through video call and voice call on Skype App by posing as Mumbai Crime Branch and CBI officers.
A victim resident of Dehradun lodged a complaint in Cyber Crime Police Station Dehradun a few days ago that she received a call from Fedex Courier on her mobile number. It was told that a parcel of hers was sent from Mumbai to Taiwan and her name, mobile number and email ID were written on the parcel. The parcel contains some illegal documents and items. Which include 5 passports, 5 ATM cards, 1 laptop, 5000 US dollars cash, 200 grams of MDMA narcotic drug and 04 kg clothes. On the basis of which she was threatened with arrest by accusing her of identity theft, drug smuggling and being a part of money laundering case.
After that, she was told that she would be under non-bailable arrest for 30 to 90 days. After this, Mumbai Crime Branch took information about the parcel. They asked for her Aadhaar card number. They told her that her Aadhaar card has been used many times in money laundering cases. In this case, she will have to come to Mumbai personally and cooperate in the case or record her statement online. On which the woman accepted the offer to record her statement online. After which they told her that Skype App is the official medium for recording her statement. After downloading Skype App, going to the search of the app, she connected to a crime branch site in Mumbai and started a video call. Police ID card was sent in the chat. The entire investigation process was explained for hours and she was told that the entire investigation process will be recorded to be presented in the court. Which can take from 2 hours to 2 days. During this time, she was told to keep the door closed and not to talk to anyone.
After this, he was asked to involve RBI in this matter by getting information about all his bank accounts and saying that irregularities were found in the accounts. Later, he was asked to transfer all the money to the account mentioned for verification. He was told that after investigation, all the money will be returned to the account. When he expressed his inability to transfer the money, they got angry. After this, they started threatening. By this time, he had been cheated of crores of rupees.
SSP STF Navneet Bhullar said that the cyber crime police collected information about the bank accounts and mobile numbers used in the incident. After this, data was obtained by corresponding with the concerned banks, service provider companies, Meta and Google etc. Analyzing the data obtained, the main accused involved in the incident was identified. After which the main accused Mani Kumar son of Sagar Kumar resident of Yamunanagar Haryana was arrested from Yamunanagar Haryana area.
