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Police Station Cyber Crime of Chandigarh arrested 01 more accused who is Kingpin in the Case FIR No. 40 dated 07.09.2022 U/S 419, 420, 120B IPC PS- Cyber Crime, Chandigarh, under supervision/direction of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP/Cyber Crime, UT 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. Earlier, 12 accused person have already been arrested in this case.
(MOREPIC1)The case was registered in which victim reported that he had purchased a flat F-601 Signature Towers, Sec-66 A, Mohali and wanted to register PSPCL Electric Meter for this purchased house. He searched for a customer helpline number i.e. 7008677490 of PSPCL on Google and called on the same. The caller who posed himself as Amit Kumar from PSPCL representative, who asked the victim to transfer Rs.25/- as online charges of PSPCL services. Further the caller asked the victim to link his Google Pay UPI of State Bank of India and HDFC Accounts on CRED App. After this alleged caller fraudulently withdrawn Rs.3,26,000/- in different intervals. Further complainant noticed that it was fake/fraudster number.
(SUBHEAD)12 persons were already arrested in the case from UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal and fake call centre running at Kharagpur was busted. 22 mobile phones were recovered. It was revealed that IMEIs of these phones were linked with 2879 such complaints across India. During the interrogation of the persons arrested from Kharagpur, it was revealed that they are working at the behest of Yar Mohammad @ Guddu, who runs the whole gang and manages the cheated money. He is resident of Vill Mathadangal, PS Palajohri, Deoghar, Jharkhand.
On 10.01.2023, a team was constituted by the senior officers and sent to Deoghar, Dumka, Jharkhand area to arrest main kingpin (accused). Accused Yar Mohammad @ Guddu Raza S/o Noshad, Vill Mathadangal, PS Palajohri, Distt Deoghar, Jharkhand was arrested by the sincere efforts of the cyber team under ASI Balwan. Now the accused on police remand of 5 days. The accused Yar Mohammad @ Guddu is the main kingpin of the nexus and he manages the cheated money.
The nexus is very organised under his leadership and different set of people are involved for different activities- Providing SIM cards, Providing bank accounts and credit cards, Call receivers from the victims who make them install remote access apps, Uploading fake customer care numbers on Google, Arranging food for the gang members
The main accused of this case is Yar Mohammad@Guddu as he runs a gang which cheat several innocent persons on the pretext of Helpline Number search on Google. During investigation, it came into light that father of accused person namely Noshad is a Sarpanch of village Mathadangal and also Pardhan of 09 village Gram Panchayat.
The accused is habitual cyber criminal and he is very clever. Further, it has also came into notice that when the local cyber police of his area conducted the raid to catch him earleir, The local police raiding party was attacked by the alleged and his accomplices. On this, Case FIR No. 55 dated 17.04.2019 U/s 147, 148, 149, 341, 323, 353, 307 IPC of PS Palajori, Distt Devghar, Jharkhand was registered against the present accused Yar Mohammad @ Guddu and his accomplices were released from Madhupur Jail.
He is running the gang for more than 3 years and earned approx. 50 Lakh rupees from cyber criminal activity. The accused invested the said fraud money in the election campaign of his father, to purchase luxury cars, to purchase bullet mot rcycle and to build the new house in village.
Modus Operandi : The modus operandi of this case is that, accused persons mentioned their mobile numbers as customer helpline number (of e-commerce sites, courier sites, electricity offices, etc) on google maps and google Ads. Further when victim contacted at given customer care helpline number with regard to their issues, they got allured to install Remote Access Apps (Any Desk, Quick Support). In this way, they get access of their bank account and made fraudulent transactions from their accounts.