Mumbai: Four people from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh were arrested as part of a cyber fraud gang raid

Police claim that the scheme was discovered as they were looking into a fraud case in which a guy from Mumbai’s northern suburbs was defrauded of Rs 17.91 lakh.

THE Mumbai Cyber Cell Four people from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have been detained by the police crime branch on suspicion of defrauding victims of thousands of rupees by pretending to be interested in purchasing a product from them and then coercing them into divulging their bank account information.

Police claim that the scheme was discovered as they were looking into a fraud case in which a guy from Mumbai’s northern suburbs was defrauded of Rs 17.91 lakh.

According to the police, the complainant had uploaded images of his furniture on Olx in order to sell it.

“The complainant received a call from a man who introduced himself as Ashok Kumar minutes after posting. He insisted that he wanted to purchase the furnishings, the officer added.

As a test, the accused emailed the man a QR code to scan in his private account bank’s (ICICI) app, which resulted in the deduction of Rs 9,000. The accused then claimed that there was an issue with the payment. According to the police, the complainant has further duped out of Rs. 17.82 lacks under the guise of recouping the lost funds.

When the scammers ceased responding later, the complainant realized he had been tricked; as a result, he reported the incident to the police, and a case was opened under the appropriate sections of cheating, forgery, and criminal conspiracy.

Police officers began closely examining the call history of the mobile number and the bank account information they had learned from the complainant as the inquiry progressed.

An investigator stated, “After conducting a technical analysis of the data, we were able to determine that the group of individuals who dialed numbers throughout the nation to trick people into sending money through Olx under the guise of helping them was based in Bharatpur in Rajasthan and Mathura in Uttar Pradesh.

However, other gang members in Jaipur, Rajasthan, withdrew the money earned through deception.

According to officials, a special team was then assigned to the three places. As a result, Sarvsukh Khutta Rujdar (37), was detained at his home in Bharatpur, while Tulsiram Rodulal Meena, another suspect, was apprehended in Jaipur.

Ajit Poswal and Irsaad Sardar, two further suspects, were apprehended in Bharatpur and Mathura, respectively.

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Additionally, the detectives claimed that they had taken 2 lakh rupees in cash, nine mobile phones, 32 debit cards from various banks, two bank checkbooks, and four SIM cards from various organizations from the suspects.

An officer stated, “The four suspects have utilized more than 835 mobile phones to deceive others.” In Mumbai, ten cases have been filed against the fraudsters who were apprehended after defrauding individuals of Rs 53.74 lakh.

An inspector stated, “Based on the mobile numbers that these fraudsters have used, we have learned that there have been 269 complaints made against them on online platforms in Maharashtra, while Telangana police have received 577 complaints against these fraudsters.