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The Mehdipatnam police arrested a four-member gang accused of cheating ATM users by exchanging their cards and later withdrawing money. The gang targeted individuals unfamiliar with cash-dispensing machines, offering help before swapping cards.

Police said Jaya Kumar along with his associates formed an interstate gang of diverting attention by luring victims in the name of supply of original gold at half price and delivered fake gold.

The gang targeted an elderly woman at Madannapet and took away her gold chain weighing 2.6 tolas, say police

Those who were apprehended are Mohammed Sattar Ali, Mohd Amir and Mohd Riyaz, residents of Jagityal district and natives of Bihar

The gang’s primary strategy involved one of the suspects, a young boy, approaching victims in public places on the pretext of asking for directions or assistance

The police seize 140 ATM cards and Rs 2.38 lakh in cash from the three who were involved in cheating cases in the city and suburbs

A three member attention diversion gang made away with mobile phones from at least five persons in Malkajgiri on Sunday.

The arrested persons are Irfan from North East Delhi; Mohd Feroz from Borabanda; Shakir and his wife Rubi, both from Uttar Pradesh.

The arrested persons are Abdul Khaja alias Chota Khaja (30), Mohd Imtiyaz alias Imtiyaz (24), Mohd Nawaz (25) and Gulam Hassan (23).

Two members of an interstate attention diversion gang from Bihar involved in 10 cases in the city were arrested by the Asifnagar police

Hyderabad: Four persons including two women who were part of an attention diversion gang were arrested by the Musheerabad police on Monday. The police seized Rs.1.5 lakh and two UAE Dirham currency notes from them. The arrested persons were Banu Shaik (40), Kalpana alias Sadiya (28), Sana Afif Khan (26) and Mohammed Azad (35). According […]

Hyderabad: The Mangalhat police on Friday nabbed a three-member interstate attention diversion gang on charges of cheating a trader in the guise of exchanging foreign currency with Indian currency and fleecing him of Rs.1.6 lakh earlier this month. The arrested persons were Aman Khan (25), a chicken shop owner, Shaik Atif (29), a tailor and […]

Hyderabad: The Kachiguda police nabbed four persons involved in several attention diversion cases and recovered Rs.20 lakh on Wednesday. The arrested persons were Mohd Rafeeq Ibrahim Kalaburgi (45), a car dealer from Karnataka, who was earlier involved in sandalwood smuggling and extortion cases in Karnataka; B.Srinivas (55), a realtor from Maharashtra; Panduranga Rao (52) from […]

The gang posing as customers entered jewellery shops and after diverting the attention of shopkeepers, stole silver ornaments, police said.

At the billing counter, after promising to pay the money through e-wallet on the shop owner’s number, they diverted his attention and fled the spot with the ornament,” police said.