NEW DELHI: A cheating racket that was being operated through a Telegram channel by a chemical engineer based in Dubai was busted after a woman was duped on the pretext of selling her an iPhone.
The mastermind and his brother, Ajay Kumar Maurya, an executive with a private bank in Gurugram, were found having a network of call centres, spammers and cyber criminals to carry out the crime.
The messaging channel was masked as a link to an e-commerce portal selling electronic products. The buyer would had to pay in advance for a product through an e-wallet. Once the payment was received, the cheats would block the buyer's number and transfer the money out of the wallet.
Maurya was arrested after the woman lodged a complaint at Maurya Enclave police station. The woman told police that she had transferred money for an iPhone to the sellers through an e-wallet after which they blocked her number.
DCP (Northwest) Vijayanta Arya said they approached the e-wallet company and found the linked bank account registered in Maurya's name. Subsequently, he was tracked down to Vikaspuri.
During interrogation, Maurya revealed that the gang was being operated by his brother from Dubai. The gang would transfer money taken from the victims to Maurya's account. He would withdraw the money and distribute it among the gang members. Police contacted five other victims after interrogating Maurya and scanning through his bank account.
A case of cheating and impersonation has been registered against Maurya and efforts are being made to deport his brother from Dubai. The Telegram channel through which the transactions were being made has also been blocked. Maurya claimed that the gang used the platform presuming that it was not under the scanner of police.
The mastermind and his brother, Ajay Kumar Maurya, an executive with a private bank in Gurugram, were found having a network of call centres, spammers and cyber criminals to carry out the crime.
The messaging channel was masked as a link to an e-commerce portal selling electronic products. The buyer would had to pay in advance for a product through an e-wallet. Once the payment was received, the cheats would block the buyer's number and transfer the money out of the wallet.
Maurya was arrested after the woman lodged a complaint at Maurya Enclave police station. The woman told police that she had transferred money for an iPhone to the sellers through an e-wallet after which they blocked her number.
DCP (Northwest) Vijayanta Arya said they approached the e-wallet company and found the linked bank account registered in Maurya's name. Subsequently, he was tracked down to Vikaspuri.
During interrogation, Maurya revealed that the gang was being operated by his brother from Dubai. The gang would transfer money taken from the victims to Maurya's account. He would withdraw the money and distribute it among the gang members. Police contacted five other victims after interrogating Maurya and scanning through his bank account.
A case of cheating and impersonation has been registered against Maurya and efforts are being made to deport his brother from Dubai. The Telegram channel through which the transactions were being made has also been blocked. Maurya claimed that the gang used the platform presuming that it was not under the scanner of police.
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