Vadodara: They plan to deceive people who don’t suspect from Rs 2 Crore by taking loans with their names.
But Degatan Cybercrime damaged their rackets and arrested three people who had committed fraud since January this year.
While the two defendants were arrested 10 days ago, the third Jay Prakash Shukla was returned to two days of police guard by a local court on Monday.
The police said that Rakesh Khankariya, a resident of the letter, was the mastermind of the racket.
“The defendant used to get a cellular SIM card whose service was broken.
They used to find out if there was a telephone number that was linked to a loan from a private finance company,” said Hardik Makadia, ACP (Cybercrime).
Rakesh used to get a list of closed cellphone numbers from Bhargav Pambhar, which was accused of the second, who used to work in a cellular network company.
The list of closed telephone numbers was then given to the third allegations Jay Prakash Shukla who used to work for private finance companies.
Shukla has stolen a username and password of a company employee and use it to find out whether a closed phone number is linked to any loan account.
“They used to be zero on the telephone number that was linked to the loan account and then reactivated these numbers with a different name.
Shukla is also used to provide a loan account details to Rakesh.
Rakesh, which is the mastermind, then used to take a loan on their behalf Who uses the number before, “Makadia told Toi.
After the loan is approved, Rakesh is used to directly buy an expensive smartphone from money and then sell this phone online.
“He has sold around 15 phones and gets Rs of seven to Rs 8 Lakh.
The defendant told us that they had planned to deceive RS two crores,” Makadia added.