Five of Jamtara gang held for fleecing textile trader

Surat: Surat cyber crime police have arrested five members of Bihar’s ‘Jamtara gang’ from Rohtas district in connection with the online cheating of Rs 10 lakh from a textile trader in the city after they hacked his mobile and got hold of his bank details.
Of the five members, one accused is an MBA while another studied data science, said the police which arrested the gang members and brought them to Surat on 72 hours’ transit remand.
Cops also freeze Rs 1.8 lakh found in their account. Looking at the gang’s technique of hacking, the police expect to crack more cases committed by the gang. They send an apk file on social media to hack people’s cellphones.
Assistant police commissioner YA Gohil told TOI: “An online cheating by bank transfer took place in Surat on June 11 after a city-based trader Navratandas Swami’s phone was hacked. We traced the bank accounts in which the money was transferred. Based on that, we arrested five persons from Bihar’s Rohtas district. We arrested Sahaj Alias Ankur Rathod (24), Shubam Gupta (20), Roshan Chaudhary (18), Asfaq Ansari (19) and Ashraf Ali Ansari (22). We got transit remand of three days. Of the five accused, Asfaq and Ashraf are residents of Jamtara, a district notorious for online cheating. The other three are residents of Rohtas distict.” Talking about the gang’s modus operandi, Gohil said, “It was shocking to learn that Sahaj is an MBA while Shubham has studied Data Science. The duo, along with Roshan would arrange bank accounts for Asfaq and Ashraf to deposit the siphoned money. They used to float an apk file link on social media which has hacking tool embedded in it. When someone clicks on it a file gets downloaded on the phone which would then steal data from catche files and send these to hackers. They would decipher this data and get the bank accounts credentials to transfer money.”