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Times News Network Ludhiana: Ludhiana police has booked cyber criminals for duping an elderly person of Rs 11 lakh by posing as the customer care representative of an LPG agency . The victim, 72-year-old Rakesh Khanna of Dr Sham Singh Nagar, said that the incident took place on the evening of September 17, when he tried to lodge a complaint about the inordinate delay in delivery of an LPG cylinder. Since the 1906 helpline was not working, he ran a Google search and landed in the trap of an online fraudster posing as a customer care executive from Indane .
The accused told Khanna to pay Rs 10 as KYC fee, saying that this was part of the latest government guideline for availing subsidy and delivery of cylinder. He then sent Khanna a link on WhatsApp. Soon after making the online payment of Rs 10, the complainant found that Rs 11 lakh had been withdrawn from his bank account.
The complainant said that the money was transferred in transactions of Rs 50,000 into separate bank accounts. The money was withdrawn mostly in Assam, Mumbai, Delhi and Rajasthan. The complainant, who had suffered a leg fracture, said that he managed to reach the bank branch on Mall Road and stop the payments.
He alleged that even the bank's “robust cyber security” system could not avert the transactions and he did not even receive a call from bank’s cyber society department. A case has been filed under section 319 (2) (cheating by personation) and 318 (4) (cheating) of BNS. We also published the following articles recently Tiruvallur youths created shell companies, opened bank accounts for Chinese cyber fraudsters: ED The Enforcement Directorate arrested four men in Tiruvallur for their role in laundering money through shell companies linked to cyber frauds involving Chinese scammers.
An account with 2.8 crore was frozen, and the ED identified over 28 crore generated from these scams, based on multiple FIRs registered across the country. Cyber-honeytrap scam: Over Rs 6 lakh extorted from man A 56-year-old Bhopal resident lost Rs 6.
36 lakh in a cyber-honeytrap scam after being blackmailed with a compromising video by fraudsters posing as Delhi's Cyber Crime Branch officials. The police have detained a private bank employee suspected of aiding the scammers by providing them with bank account details. Cyber cons nabbed for credit card fraud lead police to nexus in Bihar Gurgaon police arrested two men involved in a cyber fraud network operating from Bihar.
The suspects, Kundan Patel and Ranjit Kumar, allegedly offered fake dealerships and credit card limit increases to online users across states. They have been linked to multiple fraud cases in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and UP..
