Ghaziabad: Police have broken online gaming and betting rackets and arrest seven gang members in Ghaziabad on Thursday.
The gang operates three websites (star345.com, bet33.com and wa.me.com) and cheats thousands of almost Rs 200 Crore in the past four years, said officers.
RingLeader has been identified as a bajinder kumar.
Initially from Panipat in Haryana, he had lived in Dubai for the past six years and run a gang from there, according to the police.
The arrested gang members have been identified as brother of the Sumit Kumar Bajinder, Respident Respident Nikhil (31), residents of Panipat Subhash, Gorinder Singh, Sahil and Pradeep Man and Harvinder Singh from Punjab.
They were sent to detention in Tuesday after being produced in the district court.
Bajinder went to Dubai in finding work in 2015.
There, he formed a gang and began cheating people in India by sending it a link to download the mobile game and online betting applications.
The police said Gorinder and Harinder met Bajinder in Dubai.
He then sent them to India to manage the gang around last year.
So far, the police have found 70 current bank accounts where the transaction of Rs 150 Crore has been carried out by a gang.
Some bank accounts from the defendant have also been confiscated, who have around Rs 50 Lakh.
Speaking of modus operandi, Abhay Mishra, Circle Officer Indirapuram and is responsible for cyber cells, saying the gang will send a link to people in WhatsApp or Telegram that promises additional income through the game.
After someone clicked on the link, they were taken to Star345.com and asked to download ‘Rising Star’, an application where people could put bets and win cash.
To get money, the person will be notified to create an account at bet33.com or wa.me.com.
“That person must add money to this e-wallet this website, which is linked to the application.
The players can place bets, the minimum RS 100 initially, in about 30 matches, including soccer, tennis, teen Patti, rugby, etc.
After alluring People with small profits, the gang will persuade them to increase the amount of bets.
After someone adds more than Rs 50,000 to their e-wallet, the defendant will deactivate their account and bag money, “Mishra said.
“The gang is also used to persuade people to open a bank account today with the help of fictitious online company documents.
They are used to deposit RS 4 Lakh after the account is opened, paying the RS 5,000 facilitator per day.
Transactions around Rs 20 Lakh to Rs 40 Lakh – the money Deceived from the players – takes place from every account like that, “he said.
The problem arose on light after Ritesh, a resident of Kavi Nagar, recently filed a complaint of the police stating that he was deceived by Rs 69,500 when using the Rising Star application.
A FIR was then submitted under the 420 section (cheating), 406 (criminal violations of trust), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for fraud), 471 (using as a genuine fake document) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and the part Relevant from it acting on the police computer Kavi Nagar.