Gurugram: The Gurugram Police’s cyber crime unit has apprehended 13 individuals involved in defrauding citizens across India, with a total of 8,369 complaints amounting to Rs 80.12 crore, as reported on Wednesday.
The suspects include Atul Kumar, Rohit, Meenu Chaudhary, Yatin Kumar Pathak, Rahul, Munesh, Aditiya Chaturvedi, Avinash Sharma, Ram Prakash, Mujummil, Nilofar, Abhishek Kumar Mishra, and Harshit Shukla.
These arrests were made by various teams from the Cyber Crime Police Station. Following an analysis of data from 10 mobile phones by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), six SIM cards were recovered, revealing the suspects’ involvement in fraud totaling approximately Rs 80.12 crore, with around 8,369 complaints filed against them nationwide.
An official noted that approximately 327 cases have been registered across the country, with 18 of those in Haryana, including six in Gurugram.
“The accused used to dupe people in the name of investment in the share market, loan fraud and making debit,” said Priyanshu Diwan, ACP (Cyber Crime). He said that the police also recovered SIM cards and mobile phones used in the crime.
“Further action is being taken regularly on the information obtained/collected by examining the devices recovered from the arrested cyber fraudsters by the police,” he said.
ACP Diwan said the Gurugram Police Cyber Crime teams are constantly taking necessary action against cyber criminals. “Police have also arrested 31 bank officials in the last year. We are closely working with other agencies and organisations to counter these frauds. We appealed to the public to steer clear of such dubious callers and advised caution in sharing personal details to strangers stalking them online,” he added.
“The cyber fraudsters commit fraud by luring people with good profits, investing in the stock market, share market, in the name of buying/selling cheap goods online, sextorting through video calls on WhatsApp, morphing, sending links through various means, telegram, posing as a customs officer/police officer in the name of implicating false case, in the name of issuing a No-Objection Certificate, digitally arresting people by showing the fear of implicating them in a criminal case, etc,” he said.
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