In a major development, investigations of Cyber Crime Cell (CCC) of Pune police have found that seven people from West Bengal and Bihar are also involved in the recent online cheating case where fraudsters had managed to siphon off Rs19 lakh from the bank account of a retired professor of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in September.
According to the CCC, the fraudsters have developed their link across the country and have been operating in an organised manner. They have been duping people by sending out various fishing mails, blocking SIM cards and sending bulk SMSes.
A senior police officer said, “During interrogation, two of the three arrested suspects revealed the involvement of others in the case.”
The officer said, “So far, we have arrested three persons in the case. Two from Mumbai and one from Bangalore. It was revealed that the suspects never met each other but worked as a team. Every member of the team would complete his role. Like, one member would open a fake account in the bank, other would block the SIM card, third would change the SIM card from the telecom companies, then the others would send bank details to all fraudsters.”
“In Sanjay Dande case, we suspect involvement of 20 cheaters who have transferred money into their accounts. Wwe have found seven people from West Bengal and Bihar now. We have sent our team to nab them,” he said.
The last arrest made by the CCC is of Vinayak Mahadev Trilotkar, a resident of Mumbai, for holding a beneficiary account into which the fraudsters had transferred the money. The CCC officials came to know that two of the account beneficiaries are from Bangalore and Mumbai.
Modus operandi
The fraudsters operate in a professional manner with the kingpin operating from abroad. The conmen have different roles to play like hacking the accounts, providing debit or credit card details, changing SIM cards, opening fake bank accounts etc. They use gullible youths to open bank accounts for transferring money through illegal transactions. They then give three per cent commission to the account holder for letting them use the account. After duping a person, they transfer their share into their respective bank accounts.
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