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Team of Police Station Cyber Crime burst a Gang of Loan application scam (in which innocent people are targeted and fraudsters blackmail them by sending morphed nude pictures of victim to their whatspp contacts) which is operated from Dubai fraudsters with arrest of 04 accused in FIR No. 101 dated 06.10.2023, U/S 384, 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 509, 120-B IPC, PS – Cyber Crime, Chandigarh, under supervision/direction of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP/Cyber Crime, Chandigarh, close guidance of Sh. A Venkatesh, DANIPS, DSP/PS-CC& IT, UT, Chandigarh and leadership of Inspector Ranjit Singh, SHO, PS-Cyber Crime, Chandigarh.

The accused identified as Adesh Kumar s/o Kailash, # 39-G2, Vrindawan Garden, PS Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, UP, Age 33 years, Qualification : 12th, Tanveer Khan S/o Nabab, # 482, Vill Pasonda, Near Chandigarh Maszid, PSTilla Mad, Ghaziabad, UP, Age 42 years, , Qualification : 10th,  Wazid s/o Altaf, # 39/ G-2, Vrindawan Garden, PS Sahibabad, Ghaziabad,,  Age 36 years, , Qualification : B.A..  Mahfooz Alam S/o Mahboob Alam, # 13/6, 2nd Floor, Kotla, Ph-1, Mayur Vihar, PS Pandav Nagar, East Delhi, Age 45 years, , Qualification : B.Sc. (Accused Tanveer Khan and Wazid were earlier also arrested by M.P. Police in cyber fraud case. They are bail out from M.P. ) 

The present case has been has been registered on the complaint of a lady from Chandigarh, in which she mentioned that in March 2023, she received a notification on her mobile from, Real Money application, as she clicked on notification then the application installed in her mobile. After that app seek her bank account details, which is also filled by her and they sent Rs. 1800/- to her account. She tried to refund the said loan amount but not accepted by the application.

Chandigarh Lady also received threatening calls on her whatsapp through different numbers and she transferred the amount through UPI to many bank accounts which are provided by them. They blackmail her by using different mbile/ whatsapp numbers, they are having the access of her contacts and images of her mobile phone, they sent her morphed nude photograph to her contacts through whatsapp.

After few days later she started receive message on her whatsapp that she has not paid her loan amount and they sent different loan applications i.e. See Money, Hello Cash, One Cash, S Cash, Sea Money, D Money, Okay Lends, T Loan, Swift Loan, U Cash, Fast Cash etc.

She also received threatening calls on her whatsapp through different numbers and she transferred the amount through UPI to many bank accounts which are provided by them. They blackmail her by using different mbile/ whatsapp numbers, they are having the access of her contacts and images of her mobile phone, they sent her morphed nude photograph to her contacts through whatsapp.

She received some amount from these loan applications in her bank accounts and she transferred approx Rs. 4381920/- in their UPI ID’s/ bank accounts from these accounts. 

During the course of investigation record from alleged banks obtained and scrutinized. Further, upon secret information and on the basis of technical surveillance raid conducted in Rajender Nagar, Ghaziabad area and on 01.03.2024 alleged (1) Adesh Kumar s/o Kailash, # 39-G2, Vrindawan Garden, PS Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, UP, Age 33 years (2) Tanveer Khan S/o Nabab, # 482, Vill Pasonda, Near Chandigarh  Maszid, PS Tilla Mad, Ghaziabad, UP, Age 42 years (3) Wazid s/o Altaf, # 39/ G-2, Vrindawan Garden, PS Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, UP, Age 36 years are arrested from Sector 5, Rajendra Nagar, PS Sahibabad Distt Ghaziabad, U.P. (4) Mahfooz Alam S/o Mahboob Alam, # 13/6, 2nd Floor, Kotla, Ph-1, Mayur Vihar, PS Pandav Nagar, East Delhi, Age 45 years arrested from Near Alcon Public School, Mayur Vihar, Ph-1, East Delhi arrested and 5 days police remand of all accused was obtained from Hon’ble Court. 

Today all accused are sent to judicial custody. 

MODUS OPERENDI:

During the course of investigation found that arrested person Wazid is the master mind of managing the bank accounts for cheating purpose. He open many shell trading firms in different names by using documents of arrested person Adesh Kumar and Tanveer Khan and also open current bank accounts in different banks in the names of these firms by using their documents. He also obtained the sim cards also in their names to register the same in current bank accounts which were also opened in the names of Adesh Kumar and Tanveer Khan. After that he sent these accounts details and sim cards to arrestee person Mefooj Alam for cheating purpose.

Mefooj Alam is in contact with other persons through Telegram application, he provide the bank account
details, sim card details through Telegram to fraudster and when fraudsters confirm the  details they provide different address of Delhi NCR area and asked him to send the bank account kit alongwith registered sim card through courier.

Then Mehfooj Alam booked  Rapido, Porter bike cab to courier the bank account kit alongwith registered sim card and booking the cab he provide the riders number to fraudster through Telegram. Mehfooj Alam get 1% or 1.5% on every transaction of Rs. 1 Crore and he further gave the share of Wazid who provide him accounts. Ten accounts have been used by these fraudsters and transactions of cheated money through loan application scam done in multi crores of rupees in these accounts.

RECOVERY:  06 Mobile Phones.  Bank accounts kits 10

During the course of investigation and record received from banks, it has come to light that bank accounts of different banks from various states i.e. M.P., Rajasthan, Gujrat, Mumbai, are involved in the cheating of present case and transactions in crores of amount have been done in these accounts. Investigation is in this concern is going on.