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In a breakthrough under the leadership of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP -Cyber, UT, Chandigarh and guidanceof Sh. A Venkatesh, DSP/Cyber Crime& IT UT, Chandigarh and supervision of Inspector Sh. Ranjit SinghSHO Police Station-Cyber Crime, Sec.17, Chandigarh, two accused have been arrested inFIR No. 88 dated 31.08.2023 U/s 419, 420, 120B IPC of PS-Cyber Crime, UT, Chandigarh,in pretext helpline number search on Google.
The present case has been registered on the complaint of Sh. Jung Jai Raj R/o House no. 2816, 2nd floor Sector 40 C Chandigarh, in which he reported that he has ordered the shoes from Flipkart but the quality of product is not up to the mark then he searched customer care number on Google and found an helpline number after he contacted on that number. The same day, he received a call from another number and the person on phone told him that he had not added his bank account no. on Flipkart App that’s why he couldn’t receive his refund amount of Rs 434/- and assured him that he will get his refund amount within 24 hours after update of my bank account no. on Flipkart.
He followed the instruction gave by them to add account in Flipkart. Later on, Amount 50000/- n the pretext of refund his amount from Flipkart. After scrutinizing the banks record, it revealed that the fraudulent amount was transferred to ICICI bank account. Details of alleged ICICI Bank obtained.
During interrogation accused disclosed that they are the member of an whatsapp groups“Sim and Accounts provider” “OTP, sellers and buyers group”, in this group fraudster demand for bank accounts of different banks. After that they open bank accounts in different banks and provide the same for cheating purpose to fraudsters through whatsapp. The fraudsters pay them Rs. 12000 to 15000 for each account.
During the course of investigation raid was conducted and person namely Shivanshu S/o Sanjeevgoyal Present R/o # street no.02, Ward No. 17, Moga Punjab, age 20 yearsarrested, who open the alleged account in the name of his step father and sold out for cheating purpose.
During further investigation on the discloser of arrestee person Shivanshu another alleged Subrata Mandal S/o AnandaMandal, R/o Baranagar, Azimganj, Distt Distt. Murshidabad, West Bengal,Age- 22 Years has been arrested from Delhi.
MODUS OPERANDI: During interrogation accused disclosed that they are the member of an whatsapp
groups“Sim and Accounts provider” “OTP, sellers and buyers group”, in this group fraudster demand for bank accounts of different banks. After that they open bank accounts in different banks and provide the same for cheating purpose to fraudsters through whatsapp. The fraudsters pay them Rs. 12000 to 15000 for each account.
RECOVERY: Mobile Phone 05, SIM Card 30, ATM card 05, Laptop 01, Passbook 02 from the accused Shivanshu S/o Late. Sh. SanjeevGoyal Present R/o # Street no.02, Ward No. 17, Moga Punjab, age 20 years, studied upto 10+2
The other accused SubrataMandal S/o AnandaMandal, R/o Baranagar,, Azimganj, Distt. Murshidabad,
West Bengal,Age- 22 Years, studied upto 10+2.