A fraud of Rs 45 lakh was carried out in Delhi. (symbolic picture)
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Jagran correspondent, New Delhi. The team of Inter State Cell of Crime Branch has arrested four accused of a gang of fraudsters by luring huge profits in investment, while a woman has been booked under the law. The accused lured the victim to invest in stocks and added him to the X and WhatsApp group and transferred Rs 45 lakh to eight different bank accounts through 15 transactions and then removed him from the X and WhatsApp group.
The arrested accused have been identified as Rishu Garg of Zirakpur, SAS Nagar, Punjab, Amit Giri of Jaitpur, Deepak June alias Vikas of Mundka, a B.Sc graduate and Sunil Kumar alias Yash of Gurugram, Haryana, who has done B.Ed. Four mobile phones, six SIM cards and important information related to several bank accounts have been recovered from their possession. After interrogating them, the police is busy searching for other accused involved in the gang.
Fake trading application was installed on mobile
According to Deputy Commissioner Aditya Gautam, a victim was defrauded of Rs 45 lakh by promising him profit by investing in stocks. The victim said in the complaint that the fraudsters contacted him through X and WhatsApp and got him to install a fake trading application on his mobile.
Money was transferred to eight different accounts
The fraudsters got the victims to transfer money to eight different bank accounts through 15 transactions in a month. When the complainant later tried to withdraw his investment, he was removed from the group he had added on WhatsApp and X. The police registered a case and started investigation and bank account details and statements were collected from the concerned banks, which revealed that the fraudulent money was sent through several different accounts so that the money could be withdrawn.
During investigation, it was revealed that Rs 4 lakh of the defrauded amount was deposited in the bank account of Renu Garg of Zirakpur, Punjab. With the help of technical surveillance, raids were conducted in Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi and Renu Garg was arrested from Punjab who told that her son Rishu Garg used to operate the account. After this Rishu Garg was arrested.
He told that he had sold the account to Vikas for Rs 25 thousand around September-October last year. After this, Amit alias Rahul was arrested, who admitted to transferring the account and taking commission.
After this Deepak was arrested from Connaught Place, Delhi. On his information, Sunil was arrested from Greater Noida, who told that he used to arrange OTP-based activation of Mule account and linked services through Telegram with a handler named Max.
This is how they used to cheat
During interrogation, it was revealed that the syndicate created a network in many states and bought bank accounts on commission and took complete control by taking SIM cards linked to them. The victims were shown fake stock tips and fabricated profits through fake WhatsApp groups and X handles. After this, the victims were made to invest more by installing fake trading apps. On trying to withdraw the amount, the accused used to disconnect the app and close the app.
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