Deoghar police on Tuesday arrested eight cyber cons involved in different cases of duping people by posing as customer care officials of bank and financial institutions.
Police also seized 11 mobile phones and 21 SIM cards from the arrested persons who were nabbed from different villages of Deoghar including Sonraythadi village of Sonraythadi police station area; Moren village of Mohanpur Police station; Adariya village of Devipur police station and Jhiluwa village of Budhai police station during overnight raids.
Talking to the media, Dhananjay Kumar Singh, Deoghar SP said, "The arrested persons including Sachin Mandal (21), Azad Ansari (19), Bhim Das (24), Kishore Das (19), Paltan Das (19), Santosh Das (30), Manuwar Ansari (19) and Sakim Ansari (19) used to make calls to people posing as customer care officer demanding Aadhar Card and PAN Number and then open on line bank account to bring the money in the account”.
Divulging more about the modus operandi of cyber frauds he added that the arrested persons also used to make request of cash back to phone pay customers and dupe them through other e wallets like PayU Money, Free charge, DhaniPay and Gaming App-Dream Games.
“The arrested cyber frauds also used to obtain the OTP from the customers by making calls to them as bank official and then transfer money from their account to the bank accounts opened by them in name of other persons,” said Singh adding that the criminals also used to convince customers to load remote access app like team viewer quick support and thereby get access of the OTPs coming on the mobile phone of the customers to transfer money from their Bank Account.
“We constituted a high level team after receiving complaints of various incidents of cyber frauds and the team led by DSP, Sumit Prasad conducted the raids at four different villages to arrested persons” said Singh.