Crime News Desk !!! The use of technology in the digital age has made many tasks quite easy. But criminals are also using these techniques for their wrongdoings. A similar case has come up from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh. Here cyber thugs used social media to cheat Rs 1 crore 48 lakh from a woman. These vicious thugs also kept the woman in a digital house arrest for three days. The confidence level of all cyber fraud criminals was such that the woman did not identify them till the last minute. When the money was over, the victim reached George Town police station in the city. When the police started investigating the case, the whole game came to the fore and again. An elderly woman named Kakoli Das lives in George Town area of Prayagraj. Her husband, who was an income tax officer, died many years ago. They have a daughter who lives abroad. Kakoli lived alone in her house. On 23 April, he received a call from an unknown number. The caller described himself as an officer of the Mumbai Crime Branch and told Kakoli Das that a parcel in your name came from Taiwan, which has 200 grams of MDMA drugs, 3 three credit cards and 5 laptops. The caller told Kakoli that we have to check your bank accounts and you have to support us.
DCP of Crime Branch made video calls
Kakoli Das told the police that she was scared after the call and gave complete information about her bank account to the caller. Now a video call came on his number. On the other hand, a person in police dress spoke to Kakoli and described himself as DCP of Mumbai Crime Branch. He then signed the woman’s documents, bank account information. In a short time, Rs 1 crore 48 lakh was deducted from Kakoli Das’s bank accounts. As a fake DCP, the video caller instructed the elderly woman not to leave the house in the name of investigation and she remained closed in her house for three days.
Police arrested 4 accused in the case
Four days later, when the victim Kakoli Das came to know that she was cheated with her, she lodged a complaint at the Georgetown police station in Prayagraj. The police started the investigation and found out about the account in which the money was transferred. The cyber cell of the Prayagraj Police, while working promptly, arrested the account holders of four bank accounts in which the money was transferred. When the police interrogated the four, the thugs spent the whole secret. Police investigation revealed that the wires of these cyber thugs are connected from Prayagraj to Nepal and Thailand. Amarpal, the accused arrested from Shahjahanpur, told the police that he was used as an agent.
Remote was accessed by putting APK file in the phone
The police checked the CDR of Amarpal’s mobile and arrested all the people he spoke one by one. Mithilesh, another accused caught in the case, has also made many important revelations. The arrested criminals told the police that cybercrime is carried out from Bangkok, Thailand and Nepal. The other arrested accused include A Kumar and Rajesh Kumar, who hail from Noida and Delhi respectively. He told during interrogation that people are made victims of fraud by sending APK files on WhatsApp and Telegram. These thugs used to implicate people in phone calls and download these APK files from them, after which they used to get remote access of their phone and make them a victim of cheating. Fraud money was deposited in different bank accounts and money was withdrawn from different places.
