Kolkata: Programree Police Ruin Organized Gangs consisting of sales managers Telecommunications companies, distributors and sellers of retail SIM cards that use fake KYC details to activate SIM cards and help gangs located in Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar to open several wallets.
The defendant even opened a group on the Telegram application to buy and sell OTPS and rented it to the cyber fraud operator located hundreds of kilometers away.
Police have found at least seven groups like that and decided to approach the application maker concerned to deactivate it.
2,748 SIM cards were recovered from the defendant.
According to the police, the probe began in January based on complaints from Timothy Jayant Prabal, a resident of Basudebpur Road in Behala.
“The criminals posed as a telecommunications company official and asked the victim to provide bank details and download the application to update its KYC.
In a few hours, Prabal lost Rs 20.54 lakh and approached us,” said DC (Behala) Swati Bhangalia.
During the investigation, the police analyzed six prabal bank accounts connected to the new cellphone number.
This dummy number is set to stop the victim from receiving a message from the bank.
“We continued to track this number and finally arrested the Partha Saha (24) and his accomplice of Shib Shankar Mondal (31) from Halihahar and Kalna.
Both of them run the business buy and sell OTPS.
They are charged a fee of Rs 20 for OTPS to activate the wallet using a SIM card What has been activated in the name of the main gang, “said an officer.
Initially, the defendant had a photocopy of the original Aadhar card from the sim card buyer.
They are then used using photos with different names and addresses sourced from photocopies of Aadhar cards and sending them to activate the new SIM card.
“The defendant then shared a SIM number and OTPS on the telegram with cyber fraud that uses this SIM card to open a new wallet.
If the defendant uses a wallet for a short time before turning it off, a certain amount is paid.
If the money must be parked (which needs to reuse OTP), The accusation was different, “said an investigative officer.
The police also arrested Shyamal Roy (35), Ramu Kr Giri (34) and Niranjan Kumar Paul (38) from Naihati and Bijpur along with Avijit Rit (40) and Avik Mukherjee (38) from AMTA and Garfa.
Initially a total of 748 fake SIM cards were recovered from Saha and Mondal.
The police then found 1,500 more from the RIT and 500 of Mukherjee.