Faridabad/ Hisar/ Gurugram: The cyber police, Faridabad district arrested 43 persons in connection with 10 incidents of cyber crimes reported in a week, between July 19 and 25 in the district. Cyber Crime ACP, Abhimanyu Goyal said the three cyber police stations in the city cracked several cases in Faridabad and managed to get ra efund of an amount Rs 5.06 lakh, seizing Rs 1.34 lakh in the bank accounts of the accused. The total recovery of the money involved in the cases resolved during the past week was Rs 1.31 crore. He said, the accused have been nabbed from various states, including Rajasthan and Haryana. ACP Goyal said the modus operandi of the criminals in such cases was offering jobs, earning profits through investment in share market, completion of specific tasks on the Telegram app, offering easy bank loans, blackmailing through posting obscene videos and luring people to deposit money via UPI and getting OTPs from customers by posing as bank officers. The criminals had also been sending fake messages for submission or clearance of power, water and property tax bills as well as posing themselves as police or excise department officers and threatening involvement in criminal and money laundering cases. Goyal warned, people should not pass on their personal and bank account details to anyone on phone and avoid visiting untrusted or suspicious links online and report immediately to Dial 1930 or visit https://cybercrime.gov.in. as it will help in freezing the bank accounts of cyber criminals.
Information reveals, the cases of cyber crimes in which amounts worth crores of rupees were robbed from 2579 bank accounts of businessmen, retired employees from banks, hospitals, educational institutes, police and other professions in the past six months in Hisar district. Information also reveals that 43 cases were registered by police against the accused, 296 complaints were filed and investigation is going on in rest of complaints registered by police in Hisar district. Deepak Saharan SP Hisar said, Rs 4 crore 17 lakh robbed amount was received back in the accounts due to timely action, whereas amount worth Rs 11 crore 54 lakh was got freezed and most of the cyber criminals were found running their criminal network in other states including Delhi, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, Karnatka, Mumbai and Mewat in Haryana state through fake call centres usually run by the uneducated youths studied up to class XII offering part time jobs, earning profits through investment in share market, offering work from home, provide easy bank loans, blackmailing through posting obscene videos by the female facebook friends, luring people to deposit money for high profits and making threatens posing as police officers to involve in fake sex scandals or money laundering cases. SP Hisar told media persons that in the past three months police from other states got freezed nearly 250 bank accounts in Hisar.
Meanwhile, a case of cyber cheating for amount worth Rs 2189 crore was reported to cyber police station in Gurugram, in which police arrested three persons from Indore including an ICICI bank employee who had opened and sold fake bank account of the complainant on June 7 this year, Sidhant Jain DCP said that the complainant had received a call from a female identified herself Ishika Reddy from a travel agency on May 11 this year, and offered him a part time job to earn handsome commission. The complainant said that he was cheated an amount worth Rs 2 crore 89 lakh. DCP said, police after digital investigation arrested three persons involved in cyber cheating identified as Jitender resident of Lalitpur in U.P, Ashok Jain resident of Nagaur in Rajasthan and Utsav Chaturvedi resident of Indore in Madhya Pradesh.
