Kanpur: In a large breakthrough, four people were arrested for allegedly running a fake international call center in Kakealtho and deceived 12,000 US citizens of at least $ 9 lakh (Rs 67 Crore) by hacking their data on Wednesday.
The gang leader is a software engineer with a degree from Pune University and an expert in cellular hacking.
The police raided the gang call center and recovered several telephones, computer hard disks, and ATM cards.
“The fraudsters cheated by people in the dollar by hacking their cellphones through the call center.
Mastermind Munendra Sharma is a software engineer from Pune University, and a resident of Noida, Sanjeev, a resident of Firozabad, Zikrulla, Indigenous Pratapgarh, and Suraj Suman , a resident of Bihar is another, “said Police Commissioner Asim Arun.
The police have recovered 27 hard disks, six ATM cards from different banks, passports, aadhar cards, SIM, five Android phones, Bank Express debit cards, two PAN cards, hotel membership cards from their ownership, said an official.
“Once Americans will click on the blinking ad on any site, such as reducing obesity, reducing the abdomen, strengthening the knee, increasing length or stopping falling hair, then malware will be uploaded to their cellphone.
Pop-up messages will begin to appear on repeated screens reset, causing discomfort for cellular users.
The help channel number will come with an annoying pop up and as soon as the victim named the number, the gang will request a cost in the dollar to clean the virus and provide their services.
The user will transfer money to the specified account It was asked to download several applications for technical support.
The phone was hacked as soon as the user downloaded the application, “said an official.
The plan was sold by the Call Center on behalf of removing malware and providing services for six months to one year.
If no service is provided, they promise to restore the amount.
When a user asked for money back by saying that service was not good, he used to be a victim of fraud.
Because the cellphone caller has been hacked, Gangster is used to change coding by going to HTML account details on remote access.
They will then send a fake message online transaction 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.
In addition, they will then reduce service costs.
In this way, the gang has cheated thousands of millions of dollars.