guj man held for giving mule accounts to frauds for Rs.76l 'digital arrest'
MUMBAI, March 19 -- Amid rising cases of "digital arrest" scams targeting senior citizens, the North Region Cyber Police have arrested a 25-year-old man from Gujarat for allegedly supplying mule bank accounts to a cyber fraud racket that duped a 74-year-old Dahisar resident of Rs.76 lakh.
The accused, identified as Jugal Kashyapbhai Manek, a resident of Ahmedabad, was arrested recently after investigators found that a portion of the defrauded money had been routed through his bank account. Following his arrest, a Borivali magistrate court remanded him in police custody.
According to the police, the complainant, Yogesh Bhoja Shriyan, received a phone call on January 27 from a man who introduced himself as Ajay Patil from the Rajendranagar police station in Bengaluru. The caller told Shriyan that a criminal case had been registered against him and asked him to appear at the police station for questioning.
When the elderly man said he could not travel due to his age, the caller began interrogating him over the phone before transferring the call to a woman who claimed to be a CBI officer named Navjot Simmi.
The woman alleged that a complaint had been filed against him by a woman who claimed that abusive messages were being sent to her daughter from Shriyan's phone number. She warned him that he was facing imminent arrest and sent him documents bearing the seals of the Income Tax Department and the Reserve Bank of India, claiming they were part of an ongoing investigation.
The frauds also warned him not to speak to anyone about the matter, threatening that any disclosure could lead to seven years in prison and a fine of Rs.58.86 lakh. "We have arrested the accused who provided the mule account. Efforts are underway to trace and arrest the cyber fraudsters who impersonated as police and CBI officials," a police officer said....
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