Teacher duped by luring huge profits, cyber police nabbed!
North district cyber police has achieved a major success by busting a gang that duped people of crores of rupees by luring huge profits in the stock market. This gang used to help cyber thugs by providing fake bank accounts. police have arrested two accused from Kota and jaipur in Rajasthan. The case came to light from the complaint of a female teacher, who was duped of Rs 12,50,000 by luring them through an instagram advertisement. The advertisement claimed profits up to 100-150% on investment in the stock market.
Trapped in the trap through whatsapp group
45-year-old teacher Mrs. S. Sapra told that she joined a whatsapp group through an instagram advertisement, in which people were talking about huge profits. A few days later, a woman calling herself 'Ananya Gupta' contacted her and suggested investing in several schemes. Their trust was won by showing profits on the initial investment and then pressure was put on them to invest up to ₹10 lakh. The woman invested a total of Rs 12.5 lakh, but when she started demanding the money back, she was given the runaround and then the contact was broken.
Crores of rupees game through fake accounts
During the investigation, it was revealed that in this fraud, a current account of a firm named 'AB Pharma' was used in Axis bank, in which an amount of about 6.76 crores was deposited from different sources. This account was frozen and the balance amount of Rs 50,000 has been recovered.
Accused arrested in Rajasthan
On the basis of technical investigation, call details and delivery data, the police team found the location of accused Abrar ahmed in Borkheda area of Kota. He was arrested on march 23. During interrogation, he told that he had opened fake accounts of many firms and sold them to cyber criminals at 2% commission. Based on his information, accused rahul Mishra was also arrested from Jagatpura area of jaipur on march 30. During interrogation, rahul revealed that he had provided these bank accounts to his associates based in philippines and china and charged 3% commission.
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