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The Cybercrime Cell tracked the telephone numbers of the accused and traced them to D-Wing of JP North Aviva connected Mira Road successful Mumbai's Thane (Archives)
The Gujarat Cybercrime Cell Wednesday said it has arrested 5 members of a gang, which was moving a fake telephone centre successful Mumbai. The apprehension was made based connected a ailment received connected the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP), it said.
An FIR had been filed based connected the ailment of 1 Ashok Kanti Patel from Surendranagar. He had received a telephone from a idiosyncratic who allegedly identified himself arsenic a broker of a steadfast named Share Analyst. The caller allegedly enticed the complainant with profits and conviced him to put successful definite companies listed connected the stock market.
The caller initially asked him to put tiny amounts and past gave him a “return” by depositing Rs 35,000 successful his slope account. Having developed the victim’s trust, the accused convinced him to put successful “offline trading” for “higher returns”. The unfortunate ended up transferring a full of Rs 9.5 lakh. However, aft helium stopped receiving further “returns”, the ailment realised that it was a trap and filed the ailment connected NCRP.
The Cybercrime Cell tracked the telephone numbers of the accused and traced them to D-Wing of JP North Aviva connected Mira Road successful Mumbai’s Thane.
A constabulary squad from Gandhinagar reached the premises, raided it, and arrested the accused, identified arsenic Shaikh Mohammad Jahid Allahrakha, Shakilkhan Yakubkhan Chauhan, Faizan Mohammad Khalid Mohammad Chauhan, Mohammad Junaid Allaudin Shaikh and Ramiz Nasir Sipai. All 5 are residents of Mehsana.
The constabulary besides seized 13 mobile phones, 4 debit cards and recovered a database of imaginable victims.
In a connection Wednesday, the Cybercrime Cell said that probe revealed that the accused hid their identities and get SIM cards connected mendacious names. They would telephone radical and dupe them by convincing them to put successful the banal market. They were booked for cheating and fraud nether applicable sections of the IPC and the IT Act.
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Detective PI PD Makwana said that the accused are portion of an inter-state gang, which would marque definite their victims bash not attack the police.
The serviceman said, “After duping their victims, the accused would statesman threatening them claiming that each their trades were illegal. Fearing arrest, the victims would not attack the police.”
“We judge these accused person entrapped respective radical from respective states, but the victims are not coming guardant owed to the bare threats. But we impulse radical to travel guardant and record complaints,” Makwana added.
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