All the accused confessed to their crimes, said the police. (Representational)
Cyber Police Station of the North-East District of Delhi busted a syndicate of fraudsters and arrested four persons for allegedly duping a man for money.
The arrested persons were identified as Azharuddin Ansari (Dhanbad), Murshed Ansari (Dhanbad), Asfak Ansari (Dhanbad), and Asgar Ansari (Deoghar), according to the police on Monday.
The police recovered a total of Rs 7,90,000 in cash, four debit cards, seven mobile phones and a chequebook.
According to the police, one Rajesh Kumar Sharma filed a complaint on July 3 this year in the Cyber Police Station of North-East District alleging that he had ordered medicines online which were to be delivered through a private courier service.
"On delay of delivery, he googled helpline/customer care numbers of DTDC Courier Service but landed to the fraudsters who trapped him, asked to download quick support application on mobile (i.e a screen sharing application) and cheated/ duped him of Rs 2,40,000," the police said.
The police, during its investigation, found that the cheated amount of Rs 2,40,000 was transferred to five different bank accounts.
"One of the transactions i.e Rs 40,000 was landed in the bank account of one Siraj Ansari (Jharkhand). On the analysis of the linked mobile number and CCTV footage of the ATM Booth from where cash was withdrawn, a raid was conducted at Dhanbad and a person namely Azharuddin Ansari (Murgabani, PS Govindpur, Dhanbad Jharkhand) was arrested with the recovery of 3 mobile phones, one debit card, chequebook. During interrogation, he confessed to his crime and revealed the names of his associates," the police added.
"Accordingly, on his instance, the raid was conducted and his other associate namely Murshed Ansari (Jamtara, Dhanbad, Jharkhand) was arrested on September 16 with the recovery of one mobile phone and Asfak Ansari was arrested on September 30 with the recovery of Rs 1000 cash and two mobile phones. Later Asgar Ansari was arrested on October 6 with the recovery of cash Rs 7,90,000, one mobile phone, three ATM cards, one Cheque Book, two POS machines," it added.
All the accused confessed to their crimes.
"They further disclosed that in the name of customer support services they used to ask people to download quick support applications and thus get access to their mobile phone and connected bank account. This way they used to cheat innocent people of their money and further transfer the cheated money to different bank accounts," the police said.
Further investigation into the case is in progress.
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