The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime police on Thursday acquired a 9-day remand of three members of a gang from Rajasthan who had allegedly cheated a senior citizen in Ahmedabad of Rs 1.15 crore by means of the “digital arrest” con.
The incident passed off on November 16, when the complainant mentioned he acquired a name from an unknown particular person on WhatsApp who advised him that he was calling from Delhi Police.
He was advised by the caller {that a} parcel intercepted by them had hyperlinks together with his Aadhaar card. Additional, the sufferer was advised that the parcel contained 16 passports, 58 ATM playing cards and 140 gram MDMA narcotics.
The cyber criminals additional advised the complainant that he had been booked and that an arrest warrant had been issued in his identify.
The caller went on to inform the complainant that if he didn’t cooperate with the “investigation”, he could be positioned underneath arrest.
The cyber criminals then positioned the complainant in a “digital arrest” by means of a video name and requested him to not transfer from his place. Following this, the caller, impersonating a senior officer of Delhi Police, sought his financial institution stability and account particulars within the guise of “taking his assertion”.
They then requested him to switch all his cash to them “for verification” and gained his belief by sending him a doc that had the purported emblem of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the identify of the Delhi court docket, and the stamp and signature of the Reserve Financial institution of India (RBI), officers mentioned. The sufferer transferred Rs 1.15 crore to the scamsters.
After lodging an FIR within the matter, the cyber crime police traced the financial institution accounts getting used within the racket to a gang based mostly in Rajasthan and arrested Shivraj Ramnivas Jat, Kamleshkumar Mohanlal Bishnoi, and Nathuram Nimbaram Jat.
The cyber crime police froze over Rs 63 lakh in varied financial institution accounts whereas recovering money amounting to Rs 11 lakh, which the accused had withdrawn from the financial institution. The police acquired 9 days’ remand of the accused from an area court docket in Ahmedabad.
The cyber crime police, in its assertion on Thursday, made an enchantment to the general public to not fall for such digital arrest scams. Notably, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had just lately raised the difficulty in a Mann ki Baat episode.
