3 who conned lawyer of Rs 3 crore in ‘digital arrest' fraud nabbed

Time of India

10 hours ago

Noida: Three men have been arrested in connection with a cyber fraud of Rs 3.2 crore after a woman was put under digital arrest last month. The scammers had made the woman — a lawyer — believe she was implicated in serious crimes such as gambling, blackmail and illegal purchase of weapons.
The trio has been identified as Dupender Singh, Vinay Samaniya and Mandeep Singh. Additional deputy commissioner of police (cyber) Manisha Singh said on Friday while Dupender and Vinay were nabbed from Delhi, Mandeep was apprehended from Noida. "We are trying to crack down on the trail. Rs 17 lakh has been frozen so far," Singh said.
During interrogation, Dupender alias Ginni, who has an apparel business in Delhi, said he gave the access of his bank account for the money transfer co-accused Vinay.
He used to receive 15% of the amount. Thus Rs 93 lakh was transferred to his bank account."
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Vinay told police he shared Dupinder's bank account with other associates on a 25% commission. "Mandeep said he took Rs 50,000 from one of his accomplices to get the fraud amount transferred to his bank account and gave the access of his bank account to him. Rs 71 lakh related to the case was transferred to the account of Mandeep," the ADCP said.
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The woman had filed the complaint with the cyber police station on June 30. On June 10, she received a call on her landline. The caller introduced himself as an employee of an investigation agency and informed the woman that her Aadhaar card and bank account were used in illegal smuggling of weapons, blackmailing and gambling. He also told the woman she might have to go to jail as the matter was serious. When she called the phone number provided by the scammers for a NoC, they repeated the accusations.
The fraudsters called her repeatedly until June 24 on WhatsApp. The video call appeared to be from a person in a police uniform, with the background resembling a real police station. During these "interrogations," the woman's bank account details were recorded.She was asked to break her FD and in five RTGS transactions, she transferred Rs 3.2 crore to the scammers. They also promised that after investigation, the entire amount would be returned to the original account.
Based on the statements, police had filed a case under sections 308(2) (extortion), 318(4) (cheating), and 319(2) (cheating by personation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and section 66D of the IT Act.