Digital arrest: Cyber fraudster arrested for duping IIT student of Rs 4.3 lakh

“The accused utilized to acquisition USDTs and was successful interaction with a Chinese nationalist to whom helium sold the aforesaid astatine a higher price,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southwest) Surendra Choudhary said.

He added that connected November 16, 2024, the IIT pupil received a telephone from idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium from a courier service. The caller allegedly falsely informed him that a suspicious parcel successful his sanction was being shipped from Mumbai to Beijing. When the pupil denied immoderate cognition of the parcel, the caller advised him to study the contented to the constabulary and transferred the telephone to an alleged serviceman astatine Gamdevi constabulary presumption successful Mumbai, helium added.

The caller, impersonating impersonating constabulary and Enforcement Directorate officials, allegedly falsely accused the unfortunate of being linked to amerciable cases and stated that an apprehension warrant had been issued successful his name.

On November 18, the alleged frauds called again and claimed that different amerciable parcel has arrived successful his name. They managed to coerce the unfortunate into transferring Rs 4.33 lakh to beryllium his innocence done online transactions, constabulary said.

When the unfortunate realised that helium had been deceived, helium filed a constabulary ailment and an FIR was registered, said the DCP.

During the probe, the constabulary discovered that a overseas fig from Hong Kong had been utilized to interaction the complainant and that a information of the defrauded wealth was transferred to a slope relationship linked to 1 Tejpal Sharma from Rai Singh Nagar successful Rajasthan.

The DCP said that erstwhile questioned, Sharma claimed that helium gave his ATM paper to his friend, Gagandeep Singh, who had past changed the account’s registered mobile number. When tracked down, Gagandeep told the constabulary that helium had provided the relationship to his subordinate Bajrang.

Following this, surveillance revealed that withdrawals were made from an ATM successful Lohawat. “Based connected method surveillance, Madan Lal was traced to Chennai,” said the DCP.

During interrogation, Lal admitted to receiving the slope relationship details from Bajrang for Rs 20,000, withdrawing fraudulent funds, and exchanging the wealth for cryptocurrency done a interaction named Ravi Chaudhary, said police. “Madan aboriginal sold USDTs to a Chinese pistillate via WhatsApp, receiving outgo successful rupees,” said an officer.

The accused was earlier arrested by the Rajasthan Police successful a NDPS case, said police.

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