23 online scammers held in week in Faridabad

The police have arrested 23 persons in connection with 11 cases of cybercrime in the past week. While an amount of Rs 7,500 has been recovered, Rs 2,98,518 was seized in the accounts of the accused, it was revealed.

ACP (Cybercrime), Abhimanyu Goyat, said the accused had been arrested in connection to several cases registered in three cyber police stations of Central, NIT and Ballabgarh here. He said the accused had been identified as Anuj Pratap, Rahul, residents of Aligarh; Sanjeev Kumar, alias Tittu, of Meerut; Krishna Kumar of Samaypur Badli; Anshu Pradeep Pal and Mohammad Muddasir Rashid of Kanpur; Govind Kumar, alias Shivam, resident of Hardoi; Ajay Kumar from Etah; Gaurav Tiwari, alias Ravi, of Satna (MP); Gurdeep Simran Singh of Itarsi; Amin Khan Pathan, Shoaib Khan, Sandeep Panwar, Mukul Goswami, Shubham Kumar and Ramesh Kumar, residents of Rajasthan; Sumer from Deeng Mandi Sirsa; Om Prakash, a resident of Saran Faridabad; Bhavishya Yadav from Mahendergarh; and Himanshu and Aras Khan from Delhi. They were arrested during the investigations carried out in connection with around 284 complaints registered in the past few months.

He said the modus operandi of the cyber criminals included offering employment opportunities, handsome profits in short duration from the share market with the help of fake apps and platforms, completions of Telegram tasks, offering easy bank loans, blackmailing through posting obscene videos and luring people into depositing money with the help of QR codes, UPI and getting OTP from customers by posing as bank officials. The criminals were also sending fake messages for submission or clearance of power, water and property tax bills, it was added.