Cybercrime ring busted, 7 held for fake account sales

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.

- UJWAL JALALI

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.