(With PIC) Kanpur: In a large breakthrough, four people were arrested for allegedly running a fake international call center in the Kakado area and deceived 12,000 US citizens from at least nine dollars by hacking their data on Wednesday.
The gang leader is a software engineer with a degree from Pune University experts in cellular hacking.
The police raided the gang call center and recovered several Android phones, computer hard disks, ATM cards, etc., and now trying to zero in other gang members in other cities.
“The city crime branch team arrested four international cyber fraudsters after robbing the operational center of the call for the past year in the Kakealtho area.
The fraudsters shrinked us in dollars by hacking their cellphones through the call center.
The team has caught Master-Mind Munendra Sharma, a device engineer soft from Pune University, and a resident of Noida, Sanjeev, a resident of Firozabad, Zikrulla, Indigenous Pratapgarh, and Suraj Suman, a resident of Bihar, “said Police Commissioner,” said Commissioner Asim Kumar Arun.
The police have recovered 27 hard disks, six cards ATMs from different banks, passports, aadhar cards, SIM, five phones, bank express debit cards, two PAN cards, hotel membership cards from their ownership, officials said.
“No one can have a little incling from the fraudsters who operate the call center In the Kakado area in the city and postponed American citizens.
They usually trap people in a completely different way from international call centers.
Once American citizens click on blinking advertisements on any site, such as reducing obesity, reducing the stomach, strengthening the knee, increasing length or stop the decrease in hair, then malware, a kind of virus, uploaded to his cellphone.
After the malware is uploaded to the system, the popup message on the cellphone starts to appear on the screen repeatedly, causing a lot of discomfort for cellular users.
He cannot do the operation on the cellphone properly.
The same thing happened with the people sitting in America who were victims of fraud, “the official said further.
To avoid the virus, the victim is usually trapped in the trap of gang criminals as soon as he calls a help channel number that comes with a popup message.
Immediately After the person who is trapped to make a call to the helpline number, the gang is used to request costs in dollars to clean the virus and provide services.
Users used to transfer money to the specified account, after which he was asked to download several applications for technical support.
Mobile hacked As soon as the user downloads the application.
The plan is sold by the call center on behalf of removing malware and providing services, which are for six months and one year.
If no service is provided, they promise to restore the full amount.
The cheating game is used to start from here, now when the user asks for the money given Back by saying that the service was not good, he used to be a victim of fraud.
Because the cellphone caller has been hacked, because the gangster is used to change coding by going to the HTML account details on long distance access.
By changing the account coding, the fraudster is used to send fake messages online transactions to the user’s phone.
In this message, the amount is proven many times more than the amount to be returned, while in fact there is no amount transferred.
At the same time, the user felt that he had returned more, the police said.
“Now, by calling users and pretending more money has been transferred to his account, the user reduces service costs and transfers the remaining amount to the account specified by the call center, which is in dollars.
In this way, the gang has deceived 12,000 people in US nine dollars lakh in the past year, “police added.
According to police officers, the number of people who have been cheated may be more, at this time, the police have received details of the bank report on the transaction of nine dollars lakh.
4 cyber fraudsters are held to delay 12,000 US citizens
