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Hyderabad: Three, including 2 women, arrested for providing bank accounts to e-fraudsters

Hyderabad: Police on Saturday arrested three people, including two women, who were supplying banking accounts to a group of Dubai-based electronic fraudsters who were allegedly luring people on the pretext of doing online transactions. Were. Those detained include Goa resident Ronak Tanna, Mumbai resident Judith Gonsalves and Sana Mohammed Qureshi. According to Hyderabad Police Commissioner, K Srinivas Reddy, the trio had provided banking accounts to some people working in Dubai and earned commission between Rs. 1 lakh and Rs. Rs 2 lakh for the work. “These accounts were used by electronic fraudsters in Dubai to trap their victims and extort money under the pretext of online transactions. “The trio helped the employees by providing them 95 bank accounts and most of them they had used only once or twice,” he said. The matter came to light after a person lost his money. Rs 3.16 crore for him. A total of 83 cases have been registered against Raid across the country. “It will conduct a detailed investigation to determine the role of other persons in the fraud and identify where the money obtained illegally by them was used,” the commissionado said. Police directed people not to believe in commercial messages received online from unknown numbers and not to become victims of commercial fraud networks.

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