An international cyber fraud gang has been caught by Punjab’s Mohali Cyber Crime Police. According to the preliminary information by the police officials, the gang was operating from a rented flat by creating a fake company. The initial phase of the investigation has resulted in seizing of eight accused, 12 laptops, 14 mobile phones and a new Scorpio.
Reportedly, the fraud company was established around six months before and has committed a fraud of around Rs 30 crore. The police officials have outlined that the accused used to claim themselves as bank or revenue department officials and were from different cities and states of India including, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai, Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh.
Besides this, it is expected that big revelations will be made in the upcoming days.
They used to threaten people of being caught in terror financing
Citing data and sending messages in blocks used to be the first steps of these people. They informed people that they have purchased bitcoins out of their account. There is some illegal work that can be done using this bitcoin. It is applicable in laundering of money or terror financing.
These were persons who introduced themselves as bank or revenue officials. Then people proposed that, in case they trade this bitcoin with gifts or other things, they can easily run away. Immediately after people were persuaded and gave them their account details, these people began the entire game.
The defendant knew all languages
The police said this gang was operating in other countries other than Mohali. This gang ran as a company. The individuals employed in it were able to have a good conversation in English language, Punjabi and Hindi.
They were all over 25 years old and all of them had graduated. A local data was given by the mastermind of this gang. The international calls used to be made by these people and they worked between 9 pm and am.
The international calls were being made by them once
According to the police a lot of data has been recovered concerning their laptops. It has been discovered that they used to pay checks in cash. They would make long distance calls. Besides this, a lot of inputs had been made to the police. This is not a new case even previous to this the Mohali police had come out with a cyber fraud of Rs 100 crores and hundreds of people had been arrested. They however got bails easily later