Rs 10 cr cyber con: 2 delivery boys held in Bengaluru

done: arun
Hyderabad: The probe into the conning of a 73-year-old man to the tune of Rs 10 crore by cyber crooks led to the arrest of two delivery boys on Tuesday in Bengaluru.
Telangana Cyber Security Bureau officials said Vinay Kumar, 23, and Maruti, 28, were nabbed for providing their bank accounts into which a portion of the victim's money was credited during the execution of the fraud.The account was opened in the name of Tinkan Technologies Pvt Ltd and Rs 4.62 crore was credited. Police suspect that a Chinese-promoted network was behind the cyber con operation.
Sources said TGCSB sleuths were on the lookout for the third accused, who made these two accused open the accounts by offering a commission of Rs 10,000 for each account.
On Sept 10, a city resident approached police claiming that unknown persons, by impersonating Bihar IPS officer Navjot Simi and Bombay police, duped him of Rs 10.61 crore. He initially received a phone call in which the caller introduced himself as a representative of a public sector bank and alerted him, saying an unknown person misused his Aadhaar card to open a bank account and asked the victim to contact police to lodge a complaint.
The caller himself gave the phone number. The senior citizen fell into the trap and called the number. The man, who received the phone call, accused the victim of being an accomplice of illegal account holder and that this account was linked to a money laundering case. He was made to talk to a woman, who claimed herself to be Navjot.
The traumatised victim was made to transfer all his money into different bank accounts as shared by the accused. The elderly man broke all his fixed deposits to transfer the money, assuming that he was cooperating with investigators. Later, the senior citizen realised that he was conned by the cyber fraudsters.
Hyderabad: The probe into the conning of a senior citizen to the tune of Rs 10 crore by cyber fraudsters led to the arrest of two delivery boys from Bengaluru on Tuesday.
TG Cyber Security Bureau (TGCCB) officials said that 23-year-old Vinay Kumar and 28-year-old Maruti were nabbed for providing their bank accounts, into which a portion of the victim's money was credited during the execution of the fraud. The account was opened in the name of Tinkan Technologies Pvt Ltd, and Rs 4.6 crore was credited. Sources said that they were on the lookout for the third accused, who made these two accused open the accounts by offering a commission of Rs 10,000 for each account.
On September 10, a city resident approached the police claiming that unknown persons, by impersonating as Bombay police, conned him of Rs 10.61 crore. He initially received a phone call in which the caller introduced himself as a representative of a public sector bank and alerted him, saying an unknown person misused his Aadhar card to open a bank account and asked the victim to contact the police to lodge a complaint. The caller himself gave the phone number. The victim, who was a senior citizen, fell into the trap and called the number. The man who received the phone call accused the victim of being an accomplice of the illegal account holder, as this account was linked to a money laundering case. He was made to talk to a woman, who claimed to be IPS Officer Navjot Simi.
The traumatised victim was made to transfer all his money into different bank accounts as shared by the accused. It was after one month that he came to know he was conned by cyber fraudsters. Police suspected that a Chinese-promoted network was behind the cheating.