THE COMPLAINTANT TRANSFERRED RS. 3953825/- IN THE ACCOUNTS OF FRAUDSTERS THROUGH TELEGRAM , 3 ARRESTED AND PRESENTLY ON POLICE REMAND
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Team of Police Station Cyber Crime busted a Gang of work fromhomescam(Regarding likes of post and youtube channels) through social media which is operated from Dubai fraudsters with arrest of 03 accused in FIR No. 69 dated 29.06.2023, U/S 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B IPC, PS – Cyber Crime, Chandigarh, under supervision/direction of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP/Cyber Crime, Chandigarh, closeguidance of Sh. A Venkatesh, DANIPS, DSP/PS-CC& IT, UT, Chandigarhandleadership of Inspector Ranjit Singh, SHO, PS-Cyber Crime, Chandigarh.
The accused identified as Sandeep Kumar Sangwan S/o Dharambir Sangwan, PS- Badhra, Distt Charkhi
Dadri, Haryana, Age 28 years., Qualification-M.com, Rakesh @ Rinku S/o Balram, Vill Jewali, PS Badhra, Distt Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, Age 28 Years. Qualification-12 th, Manish Rawat S/o Bharat Singh Rawat, D-7/1047 B, Dayalpur, North East Delhi, Age 33 Yrs. Qualification-B.A.
The present case has been has been registered on the complaint of Kawaljeet Singh, # 812, Sector-38, Chandigarh, in which he mentioned that he is in business of tour and travel.
On 12.6.2023 he received a whatsapp message regarding some online parttime job from Lewis digital marketing. On contacting with the alleged persons, he was told to like and subscribe the online task from youtube and on completion of the such given task, he will earn the profit on his invested amount. Later, he was askedtoshift to the Telegram for the task.
On the telegram initially he came in touch with @Vanita817, next with @Dinesh Dabasia47, Kucoin08 and Proquest finance 6 and they haveprovidedthe different bank accounts to him through telegram links. He deposited Rs. 20 Lacks in their accounts in the name of completion of task, but he didn’t get any refund.(SUBHEAD)
On completing of given task, he was told to complete more task for refund of the earned money. Thereafter, on asking refund of money, he was told that, he will get his earning back only, if he complete a big joint tasks of Rs. 1000000/- , he also deposited the same and after they demanded more money, he deposited the amount again.
On asking for refund of earned money, complainant was told to deposit more money for thet ask. By that time, complainant got suspicious about these transactions and started asking about the refund of money. Alleged persons have stopped responding him. The total amountof Rs. 3953825/- has been transferred by him to their accounts, which are provided through telegram by fraudsters.
During the course of investigation letter to Telegram was sent toobtaintheinformation about the alleged telegram and Whatsapp accounts and reply of the same has received, in which IP details of Dubai are found.
Further, record from concerned banks also obtained and after scrutiny of bank record found that alleged persons are operating the gang from Delhi, NCR. Further, upon secret information and on the basis of technical surveillance raid conducted on Delhi NCR area and on 12.7.2023 Sandeep Kumar Sangwan S/o Dharambir Sangwan, PS- Badhra, Distt Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, Age 28 years, Rakesh @ Rinku S/o Balram, Vill Jewali, PS Badhra, DisttCharkhi Dadri, Haryana, Age 28 Years. Manish Rawat S/o Bharat SinghRawat, D- 7/1047 B, Dayalpur, North East Delhi, Age 33 Yrs arrested from Gurugram, Haryanaand, presently are on police remand. Investigation of the case is going on.
MODUS OPERANDI: During the course of investigation found that person namely Gaurav whoisthekingpin of this scam, he is the friend of arrestee person Rinku @Rakesh, Manish Rawat and in the month of March/ April 2023 they discussed about the work from home scam through social media.
After that Gaurav, Rinku @ Rakesh and Manish Rawat called another arrestee Sandeep Kumar (Who was the employee of Hitech company near Rohtak Haryana) and told him about the work from home scam, he prepare him to open the current bank accounts in different banks on the name of different shell companies/firms.
After that they open an office in East Punjabi Bagh, Delhi for the purposeof account opening and after the establishment of office Gaurav went out to Dubai. As per plan Rohtash @ Rinku, Sandeep Kumar called some persons from his sources to open their bank accounts and offered them to pay Rs. 10000/- for every account. Sandeep called many persons at their office and he prepared their Certificates of LabourDepartment Haryana and Shop Act., also prepared flex printing boards of tradingcompanies, which are open on their names. On the basis of these certificatestheircurrent bank accounts opened in different bank accounts and Rinku @Rohtash, ManishRawat and Sandeep provide the whole bank account record to Gaurav.
After that hesentthem link of v5smsf, Bee, SmsEye2 (These applications are used to take the access of SMS’s of mobile phones) and ask to install these applications in those mobile phones, which are registered in alleged bank accounts, after installation he provide an code to enter in the application to take the access of SMS’s of the mobile for the purposeofcheating. Eight accounts have been used by these fraudsters and transactions of cheated money through work from home scam done in multi crores of rupeesintheseaccounts.
Master Minds: Gaurav is the master mind of this scam. He was served in Merchant Navy in2017- 18. In year 2021/ 2022 Gaurav, Rakesh @ Rinku, Sandeep Kumar, Mohit Rawat were working together in Mumbai and they are involved in money laundering there.
In year 2022 they came back in Delhi NCR from Mumbai. In March/ April 2023 Gaurav discussed about the workfromhome scam through Telegram with them. They open an office in East Punjabi Bagh for the cheating purpose. Gaurav asked to Rakesh @ Rinku, Manish Rawat and Sandeep to prepare bank accounts and he offered them to pay Rs. 2 Lack for every account and after the establishment of office he went out to Dubai. He is operating the work from home scam from Dubai.
RECOVERY: 14 Mobile Phones, Bank accounts kits 08, Flex boards of shel trading , companies 05
