Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad police on Thursday broke the online game racket and arrested two people from the Society GH-07 in the Republican Crossings.
The defendant has created a website, world777.bet and the application to cheat more than 15,000 people around Rs 50 Crore.
The accusation captured was Nitin Gupta (25), a resident of Bhajanpura, Delhi, and Anurag Chaudhary (20), a native of Hathras.
Nitin and Monika, who fled, was the mastermind.
While Monika comes from Delhi and is preparing for the IAS exam, Nitin holds a BA and Anurag’s title passes through the intermediary last year.
Describe the modus operandi, Abhay Mishra, Circle Officer Indirapuram and is responsible for Cyber Cell, saying that the defendant will send a link to victims in WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook and Instagram.
After the victim opened the link, they had to enter after downloading the ‘World777’ application.
“The victims must add money to the game wallet to start the bet.
The players can place bets, at least Rs 100 at first, in the initial, in about 30 matches, including football, tennis, teen Patti, rugby etc.
After captivating the victims with small profits, The defendant will increase the amount of bet.
Once a victim adds more than Rs 50,000 to the wallet, the defendant will close the Gamer ID and transfer the number to their bank account, “he said, adding that Nitin and Monika would talk to the victims on the phone and suggest them for bet more money for higher profits.
Sumit Kumar Cyber cell sub-inspector said that the police had received complaints in May.
“Ritesh Kumar, a resident of Indirapuram, has filed a complaint after he lost Rs 69,500.
Kumar had begun to win the game at first, after that he began entering more money.
But when he added Rs 69,500 to the game wallet, his account was closed.
He tried to contact the service Customers but when no one succeeded, he approached Cyber cells on May 26.
Initial investigations revealed that Nitin and Monika had run racquets since 2018 and Anurag joined them four months ago.
Nitin has changed his office more than 10 times and used to live in one The place for about six months, “he said, adding that Nitin got an idea after he lost money in the online game.
Police said that they had cheated more than 15,000 people in the past six months.
“They have formed various groups of WhatsApp, including the Panel Service Group, Broadcast Bookie Hub and Puner Broadcast.
Some groups have more than 11,000 members and the defendant will send a link to all of them.
The police get detailed five bank accounts in nitin name and with various addresses.
One account has more than Rs 1 Crore.
The police have also recovered four cellphones, one tab, checking books, six ATM cards and four-wheeled cards from them.
Gang is also used to deceive people with the pretext of installing a mobile roof tower.
They will approach people for Renting space for the cellular towers and gives more than Rs 90,000 per month.
“They will request a processing fee of Rs 30,000 and will turn off their cellphones after earning money,” Police said.
The duties were booked based on Section 419 (punishment to cheat by personation), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for cheating purposes), 471 (using original fake documents), 120B (Conspira The criminal) from the IPC and under the relevant section act.
The police will also take action against the flat owner to rent his house without the right police verification.
Gaming gang that cheats more than 15 k people RS 50CR damaged, 2 captured
