Noida: The 24-year-old member of the Cybercrime gang based in Jharkhand’s Jamtara was arrested by Noida police from Saharanjanpur on Tuesday because of the alleged cheat of retired police, especially from above, more than Rs 4.5 Crore with the pretext of the disbursement of pensions.
Thossing The Treasury Department, accused Noor Ali and his five mercy would call the police retirees and share important details with them to gain their confidence.
The investigator said the gang had taken their victim’s personal data from the online data market or shared database available with Cybercrime gang based in Jamtara.
Having their trust, the defendant will submit a potential target to update the details of their bank so that they can be available for some pending money directly on their savings account.
Those who fell into the trap they were asked to share OTPS sent to their telephone numbers.
And once OTP was distributed, the defendant would empty their bank account and transfer money to several accounts opened with fake documents.
According to Inspector Vinod Pandey from the cyber crime police station in Noida, the defendant has been cheated by at least 25 retirees.
Police Rs 4.5 Crore.
Their victims include a retired police officer in Varanasi, which was deceived by Rs 40 Lakh, a former police official based in Agra who lost Rs 10 Lakh, and two retired police from Baghpat who was cheated by Rs 23 Lakh and Rs 8 Lakh respectively.
“Suburably from the Bhagalpur Bihar district, Ali sat in the district of Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, where he owned his own home and made his parents.
He was arrested from Saharanpur,” Pandey told Toi.
“Like Ali, several other cyber criminals trained in Jamtara who were late began to move to other countries with their families.” So far, transactions in at least 80 bank accounts from several private banks and 40 e-PABE payment platforms have been detected.
The police have so far been tracked Rs 1.5 lakh in a bank account used by the defendant and freezes.
Likewise, total RS.
1.8 lakh across the e-wallet has also been frozen by the police with the help of a payment platform.
Rang has targeted the wife of Punjab Cm and sat Patiala MP Preneet Kurthe Gang the same targeted before her from Rs 23 Lakh.
Mastermind of Gang, Ataul Ansari, in August 2019, called Preneet Kaur when he attended a parliamentary session, pretending to be the manager of the Bank of Nice of India (SBI).
He took details such as ATM PIN and OTP number from preneet, claiming that his salary must be credited in an account and important information immediately needed.
After securing secret details, the defendant was suspected of interesting RS 23 Lakh from the Kaur account in three transactions.
MP has submitted a complaint with the Punjab police, after the police connected the dots with virtual world crime gangs based in Jamtara.