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The cyber transgression constabulary froze implicit Rs 63 lakh successful assorted slope accounts portion recovering currency amounting to Rs 11 lakh, which the accused had withdrawn from the bank. (Representational Photo)
The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime constabulary connected Thursday received a 9-day remand of 3 members of a pack from Rajasthan who had allegedly cheated a elder national successful Ahmedabad of Rs 1.15 crore done the “digital arrest” con.
The incidental took spot connected November 16, erstwhile the complainant said helium received a telephone from an chartless idiosyncratic connected WhatsApp who told him that helium was calling from Delhi Police.
He was told by the caller that a parcel intercepted by them had links with his Aadhaar card. Further, the unfortunate was told that the parcel contained 16 passports, 58 ATM cards and 140 gram MDMA narcotics.
The cyber criminals further told the complainant that helium had been booked and that an apprehension warrant had been issued successful his name.
The caller went connected to archer the complainant that if helium did not cooperate with the “investigation”, helium would beryllium placed nether arrest.
The cyber criminals past placed the complainant successful a “digital arrest” done a video telephone and asked him not to determination from his place. Following this, the caller, impersonating a elder serviceman of Delhi Police, sought his slope equilibrium and relationship details successful the guise of “taking his statement”.
They past asked him to transportation each his wealth to them “for verification” and gained his spot by sending him a papers that had the purported logo of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the sanction of the Delhi court, and the stamp and signature of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), officials said. The unfortunate transferred Rs 1.15 crore to the scamsters.
After lodging an FIR successful the matter, the cyber transgression constabulary traced the slope accounts being utilized successful the racket to a pack based successful Rajasthan and arrested Shivraj Ramnivas Jat, Kamleshkumar Mohanlal Bishnoi, and Nathuram Nimbaram Jat.
The cyber transgression constabulary froze implicit Rs 63 lakh successful assorted slope accounts portion recovering currency amounting to Rs 11 lakh, which the accused had withdrawn from the bank. The constabulary received 9 days’ remand of the accused from a section tribunal successful Ahmedabad.
The cyber transgression police, successful its connection connected Thursday, made an entreaty to the nationalist not to autumn for specified integer apprehension scams. Notably, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had precocious raised the contented successful a Mann ki Baat episode.
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