Two held in Mumbai for buying 25 phones worth Rs 19.66 lakh through cyber fraud
LT Marg police arrested two men from Ahmedabad and Kurla and seized 25 mobile phones worth Rs 19,66,075 in a credit card fraud case.
Mumbai Police have cracked down on a gang that bought expensive mobile phones through cyber crime. LT Marg police arrested two accused, one from Ahmedabad in Gujarat and one from Kurla in Mumbai. Twenty-five mobile phones worth Rs 19,66,075 were seized from them.
The action began after a complaint from a victim, which LT Marg police registered. In the complaint, the man said he received a call from an unknown mobile number. The caller claimed to be a representative of RBL credit card.
According to the complaint, the caller said the e-mail service on the credit card had to be stopped and that he was sending a link on WhatsApp for this. As soon as the complainant clicked the link, the cyber fraudster made three transactions on the credit card and bought goods worth Rs 4,48,721 on the Swiggy platform.
Police said a technical investigation was started given the seriousness of the case. On the basis of this probe, police arrested Anisbeg Samirbeg Mirza (23) and Moin Rahim Shaikh (34). Police said two iPhones and 25 mobile phones were seized from the accused. The phones had been bought through other cyber fraud cases.
Meanwhile, the cyber police of Delhi's South District recently busted an interstate cyber fraud gang. That case involved fraud through Telegram-based tasks and cryptocurrency investment. Police had detained three people from Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand in connection with it.
In the Delhi case, the complainant allegedly came into contact with the fraudsters through Telegram. There, promised good returns, the complainant was lured into putting money into online tasks and cryptocurrency.
Police said the complainant trusted them and invested as the accused directed. The complainant put in Rs 4,66,300 and Rs 3,20,000, a total of Rs 7,86,300 in two transactions. Contrary to the promise, the accused returned no money. When the complainant asked for the investment back, they stopped responding. Only then did the complainant realise they had been cheated.
