By Express News Service
BHUBANESHWAR: In a big progress, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Crime Branch has arrested three people for allegedly selling one-time passwords to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) brokers to create fake social media accounts and piece of email IDs.
Acting on a tip-off, STF carried out raids and nabbed Pathanisamant Lenka (35) of Itamati, who’s a coach in an ITI college, Saroj Kumar Nayak alias Amit (26) of Poibadi in Nayagarh district and Soumya Pattanaik (19) of Sujanpur in Jajpur district.
During the raids, the corporate seized 19 cellphones, 47 pre-activated SIM enjoying playing cards, 23 SIM covers and 61 ATM enjoying playing cards from the accused. The trio was reportedly concerned with a woman Pakistani intelligence operative who was booked beneath Official Secrets Act and arrested in a honey lure case from Rajasthan ultimate yr.
STF’s investigation has established that the anti-socials had been fraudulently procuring SIM enjoying playing cards in bulk issued inside the names of assorted people with out their info. They had been selling the OTPs and hyperlinks generated by the use of the SIM enjoying playing cards to ISI brokers in Pakistan and folks working in India.
The accused had been receiving funds from the Pakistani brokers clandestinely working in India, talked about the STF. They had been even selling the OTPs to cyber frauds. The OTPs had been utilized by abroad nationals to create diversified accounts/channels on social media like WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook and Instagram.
They had been moreover using the OTPs for on-line procuring web sites Amazon and Flipkart and to create piece of email accounts. The aim of the abroad brokers was to current an impression to the oldsters that the accounts had been of Indians nonetheless they’d been actually operated from Pakistan, talked about the STF.
The accounts opened on on-line procuring platforms had been reportedly used to offer diversified devices to terrorists and folk partaking in anti-India actions. People weren’t discovering one thing suspicious as a result of the social media/procuring accounts had been registered/linked on Indian cellular phone numbers.
“These social media accounts were used to commit various types of anti-India activities like spying, communicating with terrorists, radicalization and running propaganda against the country. The foreign nationals were also fueling anti-India/divisive sentiments on social media and engaging in sextortion and honey trapping,” talked about STF IG Jai Narayan Pankaj.
The trio was not able to give any satisfactory reply referring to sharing of OTPs and totally different information to abroad nationals. A case was registered on this connection beneath Sections 419, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120B and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 66C and 66D of the Information Technology Act they normally had been arrested, he talked about.
BHUBANESHWAR: In a big progress, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Crime Branch has arrested three people for allegedly selling one-time passwords to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) brokers to create fake social media accounts and piece of email IDs.
Acting on a tip-off, STF carried out raids and nabbed Pathanisamant Lenka (35) of Itamati, who’s a coach in an ITI college, Saroj Kumar Nayak alias Amit (26) of Poibadi in Nayagarh district and Soumya Pattanaik (19) of Sujanpur in Jajpur district.
During the raids, the corporate seized 19 cellphones, 47 pre-activated SIM enjoying playing cards, 23 SIM covers and 61 ATM enjoying playing cards from the accused. The trio was reportedly concerned with a woman Pakistani intelligence operative who was booked beneath Official Secrets Act and arrested in a honey lure case from Rajasthan ultimate yr.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
STF’s investigation has established that the anti-socials had been fraudulently procuring SIM enjoying playing cards in bulk issued inside the names of assorted people with out their info. They had been selling the OTPs and hyperlinks generated by the use of the SIM enjoying playing cards to ISI brokers in Pakistan and folks working in India.
The accused had been receiving funds from the Pakistani brokers clandestinely working in India, talked about the STF. They had been even selling the OTPs to cyber frauds. The OTPs had been utilized by abroad nationals to create diversified accounts/channels on social media like WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook and Instagram.
They had been moreover using the OTPs for on-line procuring web sites Amazon and Flipkart and to create piece of email accounts. The aim of the abroad brokers was to current an impression to the oldsters that the accounts had been of Indians nonetheless they’d been actually operated from Pakistan, talked about the STF.
The accounts opened on on-line procuring platforms had been reportedly used to offer diversified devices to terrorists and folk partaking in anti-India actions. People weren’t discovering one thing suspicious as a result of the social media/procuring accounts had been registered/linked on Indian cellular phone numbers.
“These social media accounts were used to commit various types of anti-India activities like spying, communicating with terrorists, radicalization and running propaganda against the country. The foreign nationals were also fueling anti-India/divisive sentiments on social media and engaging in sextortion and honey trapping,” talked about STF IG Jai Narayan Pankaj.
The trio was not able to give any satisfactory reply referring to sharing of OTPs and totally different information to abroad nationals. A case was registered on this connection beneath Sections 419, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120B and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 66C and 66D of the Information Technology Act they normally had been arrested, he talked about.