Cyber ​​Fraud: Nationwide crackdown on cyber fraud: 14 arrested for Rs 6 Crore scam targeting 900 victims | Gurgaon News

Gurgaon: Last two months cybercrime police arrested 14 fraudsters who defrauded 893 people across the country Rs 6 crore. The suspects have been arrested in three cases registered in the city at three cyber police stations since August. They have deceived victims through digital capture fraud and task-based fraud.
“The suspects are involved in 45 cyber fraud cases, five of which have been registered in Haryana. Three of them are registered in Gurgaon at Cyber ​​East, Cyber ​​Manesar and Cyber ​​South police stations,” said an official press release from the cyber crime police. .
In a single case registered in the city, 12 of the accused swindled more than Rs 5.8 crore.
The complainant received a call from a fraudster posing as a courier service staff saying that Mumbai Customs authorities had seized a parcel from Mumbai to Beijing and Mumbai Police had registered a case of stolen identity against her.
“The person posing as a Mumbai police officer said that an arrest warrant had been issued against her for receiving money from a gang controlled by one Naresh Goyal. The ‘agent’ spoke to her over Skype and put her in touch with a fraudster posing as an ED official. “On the pretext of verifying her liquid assets, the fraudsters transferred Rs 5.85 crore to a bank account,” said an officer, adding that the case is still under investigation.
On September 10, a case was registered at Cyber ​​East police station under BNS sections 204 (in the person of a public servant), 318(4) (cheating) and 319 (cheating by personation).
The 12 suspects – Anuj Tiwari, Anupam alias Jack, Uvais Rehman, Abhishek Sehgal, Jitendra Bajaj, Mohammad Shah, Mohammad Asad, Piyush, Mayank, Sahil, Gulrez Khan and Ajay – were arrested in the case between September 11 and October 8.
In another case, Manesar cybercrime police arrested Sneha from Farrukhnagar on September 14 for allegedly creating a fake profile on social media and publishing objectionable content.
After a complaint was filed in July, a case was registered under sections 66C (punishment for identity theft), 66D (punishment for cheating by personation using computer resources) and 67 (punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form ) of the ICT Act.
In the third case, Vishwajeet was arrested by Cyber ​​South police from Bhondsi on August 25.
He was also accused of creating a fake Instagram profile and a case was registered against him under Section 66C of the IT Act in August.
The Indian Cyber ​​Crime Coordination Center (I4C) data analysis of eight mobile phones seized from the perpetrators linked them to 893 cyber fraud complaints and 45 cases.