Cyber Crime Student Shares Passbook With Friend Lands In Rs 7 Crore Cyber Fraud Case
A student named Ashish, who was addicted to easy money, lied to his engineering student friend and asked for help. The engineering student, who trusted him and helped him, got caught in a cyber crime of Rs. 7 crore. This incident took place recently in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka. The cyber crime police registered a case and started investigating the incident. Ashish was taken into custody and questioned, and it was revealed how the crime was committed.
Going into details, a 19-year-old engineering student in a prominent college in Bengaluru was called by his friend Ashish in November. He said that his account had been blocked due to not maintaining sufficient balance in his bank account and asked for a bank account to use for a few days. Since they had been acquainted for a year, the engineering student sent his Karnataka Gramin Bank passbook, ATM card, net banking details, and the details of the Airtel SIM card linked to the account to his friend.
In this context, on February 20, the student was shocked when Karnataka Gramin Bank officials contacted him and informed him that illegal transactions had been made from his account. It was revealed that in just two days, cyber criminals had diverted Rs. 7 crore from the student’s account to various accounts under the name of a shell company. The engineering student approached the cyber crime police. The police who entered the field detained the victim’s friend Ashish and interrogated him, and the matter came to light.
Ashish said that he sold the account details taken from the engineering student to cyber criminals abroad. The police immediately blocked the account. They said that a case has been registered and an investigation has been launched into the incident.
