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Dehradun, August 30 (HS). Uttarakhand STF (Cyber Crime Police) has busted a Chinese investment scam worth several crores. In a case of fraud of more than Rs 21 lakh with a woman resident of Saraswati Vihar, Dehradun, STF has arrested three members including the kingpin of the gang who commit fraud in the name of online work from home across the country from Gurgaon (Haryana). All of them remain in contact with the international cyber gang based in Dubai and commit fraud in India at their behest and withdraw money from Dubai ATMs.
Senior Superintendent of Police STF Ayush Aggarwal said that the victim, a resident of Saraswati Vihar Nehru Colony in Dehradun, registered a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station in June. In which the victim told that she had received a message through Telegram on May 12 and she was encouraged to work from home. In the greed of earning money sitting at home, as told by the fraudsters, she joined a Telegram group of a famous electronic equipment company named Harvey Norman, named Harvey's Equipment Crew 1319. Through this group, she was made to register on a website and create an account, where the task received in the name of work from home had to be completed by going to her account on the website. Initially, through this, she was given the target of completing 40 tasks. On completing the task, she received Rs 2500 from the company in her bank account. After this, when the task started, she was asked to deposit Rs 10500 in the Federal Bank account. After this, Rs 19000 was transferred to her account created on their website. Information was given in the group that if you do not recharge the account made in the company, then you yourself will be responsible for the loss of the money deposited by you in the company. Therefore, to complete the task, the victim deposited money in different accounts as per their instructions. As soon as he saw Rs 4175017 with profit on their site, he tried to cash out. An alert message came in that that you have to deposit 50 percent as security, only then you will be able to withdraw the money. On getting suspicious when he was repeatedly asked to deposit more money to withdraw his own money, the victim realized that the cyber thugs, posing as officers and employees of a company named Harvey Norman, had cyber-cheated him of Rs 21 lakh 19 thousand 371 in the name of online work from home.
STF arrested cyber fraudsters Pratham Shaukeen (24) son of Atul Shaukeen, permanent resident of house number 399, village Chhawala, police station Chhawala, New Delhi, present address house number 85, Ashok Vihar, police station Sector-5, Gurgaon, Haryana, Subhash Sharma (25) son of Anup Chandra Sharma, resident of house number 219, Bijwasan, police station Kapshehera, New Delhi and Mukul Godhara (20) son of Kuldeep Godhara, resident of village Dhulsiras, police station Dwarka, Sector-23, New Delhi, from the parking lot of Platinum Tower, Gurgaon, Haryana. Along with this, five mobile phones, five credit cards, nine ATM cards and two Aadhar cards were recovered along with the mobile handset containing the SMS alert number of the bank account used in the incident.
This is how they used to cheat
During interrogation, it was found that Mukul Godhra, the kingpin of the cyber thug gang, used to commit cyber fraud by opening bank accounts on the IDs of his acquaintances or needy people by giving them some money or commission. He used to provide bank accounts to gang members Pratham Shaukeen and Subhash Sharma. All of them were in contact with international foreign cyber thugs including their other associates through WhatsApp groups like Dubai August, USDT 97 Hong Kong, Chinese USDT etc. The money obtained by fraud was transferred to USDT crypto currency accounts through Binance App, Trust Wallet with the help of cyber thugs sitting abroad and they used to divide the profit in the form of commission among themselves.
People withdraw money from Dubai for fear of getting caught at the airport
The arrested cyber thugs admitted that they withdrew the money from Dubai and not from India because they were afraid of getting caught at the airport for carrying a large amount of cash. Also, buying cryptocurrency in Dirham is cheaper than in Rupees.
Apart from this, the arrested accused bought cryptocurrency directly for Chinese masterminds, whose mobile numbers and chats have been recovered. They opened more than 50 fake bank accounts and received commission for selling these fake accounts to Chinese citizens. Also sent cryptocurrency. Complaints have been filed against some of these bank accounts across India, details of which will be shared with the concerned states.