The cyber fraudster swindled Rs 22 lakh by posing as an officer of the Narcotics Department.
Highlights
Fraud of Rs 22 lakh by posing as a narcotics officer. Transferred the money by taking a personal loan from the victim. Introduced the victim to a fake police officer.
Naiduniya representative, Sagar. A cyber thug, posing as an officer of the Narcotics Department, digitally arrested a programmer of a private company resident of Tili Ward of Gopalganj police station area and swindled Rs 22 lakh from him. The victim did not have cash, so he took a loan and got the money deposited in the bank account mentioned by the thug.
Complaint lodged at police station after being cheated
After realizing that he has been cheated, the victim lodged a complaint in Gopalganj police station. The police have registered a case and started investigation. However, this entire matter is said to be related to the stock market. 24-year-old Sarthak Paranjape told the police that he is a specialist programmer in Infosys.
On August 19, at around 2:30 pm, he received a call on his mobile number. The caller said that we are calling from FedEx. A courier has been sent using your mobile number and Aadhaar, in which illegal material was found and it has been confiscated and an FIR has been registered. The accused also told the youth the FIR number.
There is fear of FIR in Narcotics, fear has vanished
The accused said that this FIR has been filed in the Narcotics Department in Mumbai. Sarthak got scared after hearing that a case has been registered. He said that he is innocent. After this, Aaroni made Sarthak contact a fake cyber crime department officer on Skype app and he was told from there that his Aadhar card has been caught in money laundering.
The person present on the Skype app showed the young man a fake police ID and said that your ID is in it, the order has been placed from this. The cyber thugs asked Sarthak to keep the video on and the mic on and showed him their fake police ID.
He said that if you want to avoid this allegation, take a loan of Rs 20 lakh from the bank and transfer it to different accounts one by one. Sarthak was scared. He took a personal loan on his ICICI bank account and transferred Rs 2 lakh from his bank account to the bank account of a person named Deepak Kesari and Rs 10 lakh, Rs 5 lakh and Rs 2 lakh each to the account number of Alphatech System using different IDs.
After transferring 22 lakh rupees in this manner, Sarthak suspected that his IP address was being tracked. After this, he called 1930 and filed a complaint about the fraud. When he called his bank and complained, the bank froze Sarthak’s ICICI Bank account number. Late Thursday night, after receiving a complaint from Sarthak, the police registered a case against the account number and the phone holder under sections 316 (2), 318 (4) of the IPC and started investigation.