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Cybercrime ring busted, 7 held for fake account sales
The Morning Standard
|July 22, 2024
THE Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police's Special Cell has arrested 7 cyber crooks, including a contractual employee of a nationalised bank, who used individuals and opened their bank accounts on fictitious addresses so that it could be ultimately sold to cyber fraudsters.
While the Delhi Police was investigating a particular case in which they had identified one such account and subsequently frozen it, the alleged cyber-cons sent an email to the bank manager, impersonating as the investigative officer of the IFSO unit, asking the bank to immediately "de-freeze" the said account.
DCP (IFSO) Hemant Tiwari said a complaint was received at IFSO in which the complainant said he was cheated for ₹91 lakhs on the pretext of providing handsome returns in stocks or crypto trading.
This story is from the July 22, 2024 edition of The Morning Standard.
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