After interrogating the fraudsters of the Chinese gang who cheated lakhs of people of the country, the police have revealed that they used to steal the personal information of people by hacking mobiles and then blackmailing them. The accused used to carry out hacking by installing malware on the victims’ phones on the pretext of loan disbursement.
cheated like this
According to the police, the fraudsters had put the app of the alleged loan company on the Google Play Store. There was also a fake agreement letter of NBFC. Various permissions were asked while downloading the app. The app used to take access to SMS, contact list, photo gallery and even Google account. Along with this, Aadhaar card and PAN card were also asked to be shared on this. After this, in the name of completing the loan process, the fraudsters sitting in India used to hack the phone by installing malware and sending personal data to China.
used to tamper with photo-videos
Fraudsters sitting in China used to tamper with the photos or videos of the victims and make them objectionable. Then it was blackmailed by threatening to make it viral. Not only this, threats were made to send the video or photo to the people present in the contact list. Frightened by this, the victims used to send money to the account of the accused.
Rupees used to send crypto to China
During interrogation of the fraudsters, it was found that they used to buy current and savings accounts by paying lump sum amount. The cheated money was transferred to these accounts. After this it was converted into cryptocurrency and sent to China. At the same time, the callers sitting in the fake call centers here used to bluff people of easy loans through the app. Through this, they used to steal all the information and send it to China. The gang leader used to change the name of the app on some days to dodge the investigating agencies, so that no one would know about it.
Investigation conducted on the complaint of a girl
DCP KPS Malhotra of IFSC unit said that the investigation was started on the complaint of a young woman recently. A puncture shop was found at the location of the company in whose account the money was called. The account was in the name of Rohit Kumar. After investigation, the team nabbed Rohit, Vividh Puneet, Manish, Rashmi from Pitampura and Rohini on March 13 and Krishna alias Ravi from Jodhpur on March 14. Krishna was the gang leader in India. After this Sumit and Karthik were arrested.