New Delhi: The fraudsters who were caught by the Delhi Police Cyber Cell from Jamtara in Jharkhand have made a shocking disclosure during interrogation. The arrested accused said that now their network is not limited to Jamtara only, but have spread to different cities.
It is worth noting that the fraudsters who are in custody of the police have kept gang members in Ghaziabad, Lucknow, Kolkata and other places since they came to know that the cyber cell of the police was gathering information about them.
According to DCP (Cyber Cell) Anyesh Roy, 14 accused of this gang have been arrested by his team so far, but this gang is not made up of them only. The accused have opened branches of their network for carrying out frauds in different parts of the country. He said that the place where the gang members live in Jamtara has forests all around. They have to go to the top of a hill to make calls to cheat people, but their work can easily be done by sitting in a house in an urban area. Secondly, they are experts in technology, which is why they can easily carry out such frauds. That's why, Roy said, he has started sending trained personnel from cyber cells to different cities.
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According to the police, the gang mainly executes the crime in two ways. One way is to send a message to someone's mobile stating that the user's SIM card or bank account is about to be closed. The user is asked to call and talk to a number given in the message. When any person calls on this number, he or she ends up talking to a member of the gang. In the name of helping that person, the gang takes an OTP and breaks into his or her bank account.
Another way is to push a fake website. When someone searches for a customer care number on Google for a problem, then the fake website created by the gang opens. When the person calls on this helpline number, he or she again ends up talking to these fraudsters. Under the pretext of helping, the gang makes the victim download an app to get access to his or her mobile phone. The gang then takes information about that person's UPI app and withdraws money from his or her bank account.
To avoid being cheated by such fraudsters, people need to take some precautions like not sharing their UPI PIN with anyone. Apart from this, people should not download apps through links sent by any person. By doing this, all the information of the probable victim's mobile phone reaches the fraudster. Also, to avoid becoming a victim of such frauds, one should not completely trust customer care numbers showing up on Google, as many fake customer care numbers are also being pushed on the search engine.
It may be mentioned that due to the action of the police, there has been a 29 percent reduction in UPI-related frauds in the last two weeks.
