Five KYC fraudsters nabbed from Jharkhand

HYDERABAD: Cyberabad’s Cybercrime police arrested five members of a gang involved in KYC frauds from Jharkhand and seized Rs 1.4 lakh cash and other evidence from them. The gang has associates in Punjab and Delhi, who provide SIM cards and siphoned off money through various accounts.
The accused were identified as Nanku Mandal (27), Rajesh Mandal (26) from Jamtara district of Jharkhand, Shiva Shakti Kumar (25) and Dilkush Kumar Singh (18) from Deogarh district, and Gaurav Arun (46) from Ranchi.
According to the police, a team of cops spent about 20 days in Punjab and Jharkhand investigating and later arresting the offenders. Nanku is said to be the mastermind behind the fraud.
The gang cheated a victim from Miyapur in September this year by sending a message asking her to update KYC of her Paytm account. The victim was asked to install a remote access application ‘team viewer quick support’, and login with her credentials. After accessing the victim’s credentials, they asked her to make a transaction of Rs 1, but the victim ended up losing Rs 4.2 lakh.
“The offenders would get the stolen money in their online wallets. Through their associates, they would encash the amount. Many people in Punjab, make electricity bill payment through vendors. The offenders were in touch with such vendors,” said Shyam Babu, ACP cybercrime Cyberabad.
The offenders would transfer the wallet money to their associates in Punjab to make the electricity bill payment using the wallet money and take cash from the customers. “Later, they divided the cash among themselves on a commission basis,” said the ACP. “We tracked one of the vendors and tracked back the offenders to Jharkhand.”