Kanpur doctor goes to encash Rs.1-cr FD, bank alert exposes Rs.48-L digital arrest scam
KANPUR, Oct. 1 -- A senior doctor in Kanpur was allegedly kept under "digital arrest" by fraudsters posing as Mumbai Crime Branch, ED and CBI officials, who duped him of Rs 48.20 lakh. The racket came to light when bank employees alerted police after he sought to prematurely encash a Rs 1 crore fixed deposit, police said on Wednesday.
Additional DCP Crime Ariba Noman said cybercrime police arrested three alleged members of the interstate gang, Vasu, Atish Kumar and Kanchan Prajapati. Suspected mastermind Mukul Chaubey is absconding.
According to Noman, the gang targeted Swaroop Nagar resident Yogesh Chandra Mishra, allegedly threatening him with legal action and claiming he was linked to a case. The accused then kept him under digital arrest and made him transfer money to different bank accounts.
The fraud came to light when Mishra approached his bank to encash the fixed deposit. Bank employees, suspecting something was amiss, alerted police, following which the cybercrime unit traced the transactions and accounts.
Police found that the accused had allegedly used forged documents to create Baukoyo Contractors Private Limited and open a bank account. Around Rs 25.98 lakh was deposited into the account through 15 transactions and transferred the same day to around 611 bank accounts across different states.
Police recovered mobile phones containing bank details, forged documents, call records, WhatsApp chats and other digital evidence. The National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) also showed four cybercrime complaints from different states linked to the accounts.
Police said efforts were underway to trace Chaubey and identify other members of the network....
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