Three fraudsters of gang arrested for embezzling people’s money by opening bank account on fake address
Varanasi: Three fraudsters belonging to an inter-state gang who were embezzling people’s money by hacking insurance policy details and opening bank accounts at fake addresses have been arrested by the Cyber Crime Station Police from Agra.
The accused have been identified as Sunil Kumar of Kothi Badar of Sadabad police station of Hathras district, Ritendra Kumar of Mukhwar of Barhan police station of Agra and Shivam Kumar of Sherkhan, Usmanpur. 12 mobiles, 52 debit cards, 57 passbooks, 88 checkbooks, 12 SIMs and Rs 6380 have been recovered from the accused.
Inspector Vijay Narayan Mishra, in-charge of cyber crime police station, said that a case was registered last year on the complaint of Sunil Kumar of Dandupur. Sunil had told that he had taken a policy named PNB MetLife Super Saver. It was hacked and its complete details were told to them. This made them believe that he was speaking as an agent of PNB Met Life. The hacker had defrauded him of Rs 9,61,337 by promising him bonus benefits.
Inspector told that under his leadership the team of SI Sanjeev Kannaujiya and Head Constables Shyam Lal Gupta and Ravikant Jaiswal conducted the investigation. With the help of surveillance, all three were arrested.
Started work out of greed to earn money
During police interrogation, Sunil Kumar alias Sunil Chaudhary and his associates told that they had met cyber criminals out of greed to earn money. After this, they used to lure people with money and change their Aadhaar card address. Then after opening an account and registering the fraudulently obtained SIM in the bank, they used to sell it to cyber criminals for Rs 30-35 thousand.
Information about money received through cyber fraud was available in the registered mobile number. They used to withdraw money and distribute the shares through cyber criminals. Also, the amount of fraud committed by cyber criminals was also proportionate to their work. Similarly, along with his associates, he had also defrauded Sunil Kumar of Varanasi.
