Cyber criminals duped Rs 89.90 lakh from a Muzaffarpur businessman.

Cyber criminals duped Rs 89.90 lakh from a Muzaffarpur businessman.

Patna July 27: Cyber criminals have duped Rs 89.90 lakh of a Muzaffarpur-based businessman by threatening him to frame in a money laundering case.

The victim has lodged an FIR in the cyber cell police station of Muzaffarpur and the matter is under investigation.

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Seema Devi, the DSP of the cyber cell confirmed the incident and mentioned that the money was withdrawn from the account of the victim in four transactions.

Cyber criminals Modus Operandi: The victim, in his complaint, said that he received a call from an unknown number and the caller posed as an officer of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and asked him that his phone number would be disconnected within two hours. The caller informed the victim that another mobile number (8945392862) was active based on the victim’s Aadhar number. That number was used to send wrongful messages and as a result, an FIR had been registered in Tilak Nagar police station in Mumbai. That caller further asked him to appear before the officers of the Tilak Nagar police station.

The caller also transferred the victim’s call to another number +91 7453951616. A person who was wearing a police uniform interacted with him on video call.

“That cyber criminals in uniform posed as an officer of Tilak Nagar police station in Mumbai. He has taken the statement of the victim. He also informed him that a bank account was opened in Canara Bank using the Aadhar number of the victim and that account was used in the money laundering case of Naresh Goyal with illegal transaction of Rs 2.5 crore,” the officer said.

“The accused further informed the victim that an arrest warrant had been issued from the Supreme Court and asked him to appear before the Tilak Nagar police station. When the victim showed an inability to reach Mumbai on such short notice, then the caller asked him to upload the details of the source of earnings on the website of the Supreme Court. That caller has also given a link http://www.main-scoi.in/. When the victim opened the link, an arrest warrant was shown in his name. The victim was frightened after seeing the arrest warrant and uploaded his bank details on that website. The cyber conmen have withdrawn the amount to the tune of Rs 89.90 lakh,” DSP Seema Devi said.

FIR registered in cyber cell police station: She further said that the victim finally approached the cyber cell police station on July 24 to register the FIR. She also said that four such FIRs have been registered in Muzaffarpur’s cyber cell police station where cyber conmen have used the same modus operandi to dupe the criminals.

Cyber criminals have Rajasthan and Gujarat links: In the majority of the cases, the money is withdrawn from bank accounts based in Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Sources have said that cyber criminals generally buy lands or invest in properties. Hence, police officers always focus on making the FIR stronger to get warrants of the property attachment of the accused to recover the money.
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