New Delhi: Three gang members were arrested for allegedly cheating internet users by sending false pop-ups reported.
The police asked them to pay a fine, claiming they were watching illegal porn content, said the police on Monday.
Three accused – Gabrial James, Ram Kumar Selvam and B Dhinushanth – Arrested from Tamil Nadu by the Delhi Regional Police Cyber cell team, who camped in this region for more than a week and traveled more than 2,000 kilometers between Chennai, Trichi, Coimbatore.
, Udhagamelam to finally catch the three men, they said.
The trio operates on their mastermind orders, B Chanderkant, based in Cambodia and Brother Dhinushanth, the police said.
Probe was initiated after several people reported on social media about being issued by police notice that accused them of watching pornographic content, which was a banned activity.
Notification accused that because of seeing activities that were prohibited, all files on the victim’s computer had been blocked.
They were also asked to pay Rs 3,000 as fine, according to the police.
These victims also add that they only do routine searches in their web browsers and have not been looking for pornographic content, police said.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber Cell) Anyesh Roy, “the action began Suo Moto after registration of FIR based on social media input.
Technical analysis of Bogus pop-up notification shows that they are directed through foreign locations.” However, the trace of money causes many accounts operating from Tamil Nadu.
Thus, a team was sent to Tamil Nadu.
Since then, the defendant used a fake address to open an account, a camping team in the region for more than a week and traveled more than 2,000 kilometers between Chennai, Trichi, Coimbatore, Udhagamandalam, and several other places to finally arrest three men including local masterminds – B.
Dhinushanth.
“When Dhinushanth was questioned, he told the police that the technical part of the entire operation, which included hosting fake police notifications and the targeted display for internet users, was being handled by his brother, which was operated.
From Veal PON, close to the capital city of Cambodia Phnom Penh, The officer said.
“In the investigation conducted so far, more than 20 bank accounts found used to route fraudulent money.
Cheating more than Rs 30 Lakh has been calculated through IDS UPI IDS and QR code used in fake notifications during the February period to June this year.
“Dhinushanth revealed that cheated money was being moved from the banking system through Cryptocurrency by his brother Chandekant,” he said.
The police said this problem was increasingly investigated to uncover the complete trail of money because it was alleged that more accounts were used to hide traces of money.
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