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Cyberabad Cybercrime Police arrested 15 suspects in 11 cases between July 29 and August 4, busting a pan-India cybercriminal network. Most were linked to trading fraud, with others involved in gaming and business scams. Citizens are urged to stay alert.
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Cyberabad police arrested nine people, including two from Rajasthan, for operating mule bank accounts for cybercriminals. The gang worked under a handler named 'Jack' via Telegram, using SIM swaps, hotel bookings, and malicious apps to aid large-scale financial frauds.
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Of the total arrests, 17 were linked to trading fraud; others included digital arrest, part-time job, advertisement, call centre, customer care service, matrimony and business frauds
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Probe finds significant portion of defrauded amount transferred to a wallet associated with an international crypto currency exchange located in Seychelles, Africa
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The 47-year-old private employee was recently added to a Telegram group by unidentified persons, where he was contacted by a woman claiming to show huge returns for investment in ‘Bitcoins’ and also offered him guidance and tips for the same.
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The fraudsters made the victim transfer the money within ten days under the pretext of registration, security deposit, no-objection certificate, etc., promising to provide a Kia Motors dealership.
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The accused from TN extorted Rs 1.3 crore from a retired engineer, while the gang from Kerala conned another retiree of Rs 28 lakh
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The arrested individual has been identified as 22-year-old Pathi Manikanta from Y.S.R Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh. He is involved in crypto and mule account trading and maintained contact with crypto traders, agents, and Chinese nationals. Meanwhile, the suspect’s associates from Haryana are on the run, and efforts are underway to apprehend them.
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The suspects were identified as Naresh Shinde and Saurangh Shinde, both from Aurangabad in Maharashtra.
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On pretext of friendship, love and marriage, the suspect collected money from victim and spent them on playing various online games and online betting apps.
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Assuring to delete them permanently, the fraudster collected money and cheated the complainant.
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Cybercrime police of late have been receiving several complaints from people wherein they have lost their hard-earned money after scanning the QR codes sent by the fraudsters on the pretext of sending them money. Until now this year, the Cyberabad Police have booked 120 cases with regard to this fraud. According to […]
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Cybercrime police arrested a pastor from Andhra Pradesh on charges of derogatory and objectionable comments against a community and deities on social media and hurting sentiments. Police sources said, the pastor, Honey Johnson, from Visakhapatnam, allegedly made derogatory remarks through his YouTube channel recently. Following two complaints, the Cybercrime police booked a […]
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Avoid personal banking, online shopping on unsecured networks, say cops
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Hyderabad: A woman from the city was cheated by unidentified persons allegedly to the tune of Rs 6 lakh, in the guise of high returns for investments on an app called ‘Super Like’. According to the police, the woman, a private employee, read about the app on social media and installed it from Google Play […]
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Hyderabad: Actor Sonu Sood has been the man of the season right from when he began extending a helping hand to those hit by the pandemic, and now, it appears even crooks are out to make some money using his name. A man from Bihar, who posed as an advisor to the actor and cheated […]
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The gang arrested by Cyberabad Cybercrime police had quite a sophisticated modus operandi, which included tele-calling centres in Odisha and Jharkhand, with Telugu speaking tele-callers to lure people from AP and TS
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Cybercrime police on Monday busted an e-commerce fraud gang and arrested 10 persons, including five from Mancherial, for cheating people by sending gift scratch cards and application letters in the name of popular e-commerce and telemarketing companies. The arrested persons were Tarun Kumar from Bihar, Prabhakar Kumar Sinha from Jharkhand, Kamlesh Dubey […]
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Police said the teacher, who works at a corporate school was duped by cyber fraudsters using a QR code fraud trick
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Many losing money after scanning QR codes sent by fraudsters
