Three cyber fraudsters arrested, fraud of Rs 4.5 crores revealed

Ghaziabad: Cyber ​​Crime Team of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh has arrested three accused of cyber fraud. Mobile, one cheque book, one passbook, two ATM cards have been recovered from their possession. Their arrest has also revealed different incidents of cyber crime worth about Rs 4.5 crores.

During police interrogation, the arrested accused Amit Rai told that he has a gang, in which Uttam Das, Vivek Kumar, Anuj Kumar, Mukesh Chauhan alias Pradhan, Atul Yadav and Rahul are gang members. Members of this gang used to fraudulently obtain people’s cheques from the bank’s drop box. The name of the beneficiary in those cheques was removed chemically and other details were filled in its place and then cashed.

DCP Crime Sachchidanand Rai told that the accused used to go to banks and get the box opened from the bank employee by saying that wrong cheques were put in the drop box. After this, the cunning used to get the cheques and withdraw money by changing the details in them. Amit Rai and Uttam Das deposited the changed cheques in a bank account from which money was withdrawn.

Vivek Kumar, another accused of the same gang, said that he, along with his associates Anuj, Mukesh Chauhan alias Pradhan, Atul, used to receive cheques from the cheque drop boxes of banks in various cities of the country including Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Vadodara, Nagpal, Bhopal, Vijayawada, Chennai, Hyderabad and used to change the names. This gang had opened several bank accounts, which were used in various cyber frauds.

According to the DCP, after their arrest, cyber frauds worth Rs 4.5 crore in different cities have been detected so far. The police is investigating their other criminal history and preparations are being made to seize their accounts.