Cyber ​​Fraud: Nationwide Cyber ​​Fraud Crackdown: 14 Arrested for Rs 6 Crore Scam Targeting 900 Victims | Gurugram News

Gurgaon: Over the past two months, cybercrime police arrested 14 fraudsters who cheated 893 people across the country of over Rs 6 crore. The accused were arrested in three cases registered in the city this year at three cyber police stations since Aug. They cheated victims through digital arrest frauds and task-based frauds.
“The accused are involved in 45 cyber fraud cases, out of which five are registered in Haryana.Three of them are registered in Gurgaon at Cyber ​​East, Cyber ​​Manesar, and Cyber ​​South police stations,” stated an official release issued by the cybercrime police .
In a single case registered in the city, 12 of the accused defrauded over Rs 5.8 crore.
The complainant received a call from a fraudster posing as a courier agency staff who said that Mumbai Customs authorities seized a package from Mumbai to Beijing and a case of stolen identity was registered against her by Mumbai Police.
“The person posing as a cop from Mumbai said an arrest warrant was issued against her for receiving money from a gang operated by one Naresh Goyal. The ‘cop’ was talking to her on Skype and connected her to a fraudster posing as an ED official .On the pretext of verifying her liquid assets, the fraudsters made her transfer Rs 5.85 crore to a bank account,” said a cop, adding that the case is still under investigation.
On Sept 10, a case was registered at Cyber ​​East police station under BNS sections 204 (personating a public servant), 318(4) (cheating), and 319 (cheating by personation).
The 12 accused — 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 Sept 11 and Oct 8.
In another case, Manesar cybercrime police arrested Sneha from Farrukhnagar on Sept 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 by using computer resources), and 67 (punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of the IT Act.
In the third case, Vishwajeet was arrested by Cyber ​​South police from Bhondsi on Aug 25.
He was also accused of creating a fake Instagram profile, and a case was registered against him in Aug under section 66C of the IT Act.
The Indian Cyber ​​Crime Coordination Center’s (I4C) data analysis of eight mobile phones seized from the offenders linked them to 893 cyber fraud complaints and 45 cases.