WORK FROM HOME SCAM ARE THE TYPES OF SCAM THAT INVOLVES TRICKING VICTIMS INTO PAYING FOR A FAKE JOB OPPORTUNITY ON TELEGRAM/WHATSAPP. THESE SCAMS OFTEN TARGET VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN NEED OF MONEY AND ARE LOOKING FOR WORK/ PART TIME WORK. VICTIMS LOST MONEY AFTER FALLING PREY TO CYBER FRAUDSTERS WHO LURED THEM THROUGH TELEGRAM MESSAGING PLATFORM OFFERING PART-TIME JOBS I.E. YOUTUBE LIKES/, SUBSCRIBTION YOUTUBE CHANNELS, LIKES & SHARING ON SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATIONS) UNEARTH BY POLICE STATION CYBER CRIME, UT CHANDIGARH.
(MOREPIC1) Face2Bews/Chandigarh
In a major breakthrough in above said Work from Home Scam, in case FIR No. 70 dated 1.7.2023 U/S 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B IPC PS-CC, under the leadership of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP-Cyber, UT, Chandigarh and guidance of Sh. A Venkatesh, DSP/Cyber Crime& IT UT, Chandigarh and supervision of Inspector Sh. Ranjit Singh SHO Police Station-Cyber Crime, Sec-17, Chandigarh, got major success to arrest one more accused from Delhi NCR area.
FIR No. 70 dated 1.7.2023 U/S 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B IPC PS-CC Above said case has been regist ered on the complaint of a lady from Chandigarh. In which she stated that she received random whatsapp message from virtual number and the sender imposed herself as Sagrika Yadav from Zebra techies Solution India Pvt. Ltd
She offered her a part time position as a work from home opportunity. The work was just to like and subscribe the Youtube videos for that they sent an link.
After liking their videos they send her Rs. 210/- twice and Rs. 90/- once and thereby mechant task are also available with prepayment. For merchant task she paid Rs. 1000/-, 5000/- as initial amount and this was dome under a telegram group. She was asked to create account on www.bitiine.com which is multi trading exchange company website, during creation of account on said website she made an mistake, due to her mistake members of their group was suffering as they are no able to work and they are not getting the money back.
(SUBHEADShe choose to pay Rs. 190000/- on humanity ground. After their allurement for task she paid Rs. 762000/-.After analysis of record, upon secret information following alleged has been arrested :-
Taufiq Alam S/o Wagid Ali, H.no. C-5, Room No. 10, Sunrise Residency, Sector 34, Rohini, Delhi 24 years B-Tech.
RECOVERY; Mobile Phones 02, 2 Details of Telegram accounts 14 Arrested person Taufiq Alam was using Telegram ID’s i.e. @Saurabh singh @PujaMehra @James Taufiq Alam is the member of many Telegram Groups to obtain the details of bank accounts and to provide the same to his bosses who are sitting in China, Dubai through Telegram handles who are in China and Dubai :-
Indian Bank Card’s Business 985 Members, Trusted Bank Dealers 193 Members, International Bank Renting 1923 members, Indian Banks on Rent 195 Members, Indian Bank Accounts 1003 Members
6. Bank Accounts Buy/ Sell Genuine, Indian Invincible 3775 members, Account rent 465 members, Current/ Saving/ Corporate 404 members, Indian Saving accounts 230 members, Trusted Bank dealers 193 members. . International Bank renting 1923 members, .Fake Sim and Bank accounts in Delhi 285 members, NEws 2028 Members
MODUS OPERANDI : In the beginning, Victim received message through Whatsapp/Telegram regarding some online part time Job and any link or whatsapp number also given in that message by fraudster. After click on link or contact to given whatsapp number, fraudsters ask the victim to join the groups on Telegram & Whatsapp, in which 5 to 10 of their associates re already in the group, they assure the fellow victim that the group is genuine by showing their huge income/Profit.
After that they provide the task to Like & Subscribe Youtube Post/Channels, other Social Media post and also pay them some nominal amount for their task of Like & Subscription of Youtube Post/Channels, other Social Media posts. When the victim received some amount for their task, then they asked to create account on website (Which is designed by fraudsters) by sharing the user name and password on Telegram group.
After creation of account on their website, there are big task are given on website and they allure the fellow victim to invest money for the big task to earn more money. After their allurement fellow victim
deposit huge amount in their accounts, which is provided by them through Telegram/Whatsapp and victim’s earned money also shown on their website account but they can’t withdraw the earned amount. They continuously ask/ allure victim to deposit more money to earn more money and to withdraw their earned money.
As the investment amount becomes larger, they quit the victim from the task and drops from the group, dump the website. When victim contact to them to withdraw his money, they ask the victim to invest more money in a new group for a new task.
SMS Remote Applications After opening the accounts fraudsters provide the account details through
Telegram/ Whatsapp to their bosses who are in Dubai, China, Indonesia, Pakistan and they sent them link of v5smsf, Bee, SmsEye2, Poker (These applications are used to take the access of SMS’s of mobile phones) Airdroid, MightyText 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 purpose of cheating. When the huge amount collected from the workfrom home scam then the cheated amount is invested in crypto currency (USDT, Bitcoins,) and sent to Dubai, China, Indonesia, Pakistan by various digital wallets. Involvement of Banks:-
During investigation it has also come to light that details of 27 bank accounts (In which transactions of rupees multi Crores have been made) provided by accused Taufiq Alam to his bosses who are sitting in China and Dubai. Mainly bank accounts of YES Bank, ICICI Bank, IDFC Bank, Ujjaval Small Finance bank are used for cheating in the name of work from home scam.
As transactions of Rs. 50000000/- per day can be done by using the current accounts of these banks. Fraudster open the bank accounts on fake documents and also register the mobile numbers in these accounts which are also obtained through fake documents.
IP Details of Telegram accounts :- Details of alleged Telegram groups are also obtained and according to their IP details same are found to belong to Dubai, China, Indonesia, Pakistan.
