Delhi Police has arrested 23 cyber thugs by conducting raids across the country. This action on cyber thugs has been done by Special Cell Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations Unit (IFSO) of Delhi Police. The Special Cell told that these people have done cyber fraud with thousands of people through fake State Bank of India app.
How they used to commit fraud: It was told by the police that these thugs had created an app similar to SBI’s digital app SBI YONO, in which many links were present to cheat people. They used to go to the people and call themselves SBI employees. Then the bank was asked to update KYC and the app was downloaded in the mobile, then after that the whole game of cheating would start. As soon as the customer used to fill all the information related to SBI account in the fake app. After which all the information related to the account used to come to the thugs, even the thugs used to have control over the OTP coming on the mobile number of the account holder.
What did you get from the thugs?: DCP KPS Malhotra, Special Cell of Delhi Police has recovered 58 mobile phones, 12 laptops and 20 debit cards and more than 200 SIM cards used during the fraud from the possession of cyber thugs. He further said that all the phones, SIM cards and laptops have been sent for further forensic examination. On analyzing the SIM cards, it has been found that all these SIM cards are linked to about 820 FIRs registered across the country.
Wires connected to other states of the country as well: Investigation revealed that these people used to run the entire network with the help of their comrades present in Gujarat, West Bengal and Jharkhand, if any of them were arrested by the police then all the people would go underground.
23 thugs caught: Delhi Police has caught 23 people in these raids, all of them are residents of Giridih and Dhanbad in Jharkhand. Those arrested include Mahendra Mandal, Pawan, Tinku, Chhotu, Sandeep, Ramjit Mandal, Sushil, Ravi Mandal, Sanjeet Kumar, Raj Kishore, Vikas and Shankar Mandal.