Everyone in the country is troubled by cyber thugs. Cyber thugs have spread their network not only in the country but also abroad. This was revealed when 11 thugs who committed cyber fraud of Rs 190 crore were arrested. The accused were living on rent in a house in Kotwali area of Azamgarh city. 11 people were running a call center in a small room in which they had defrauded people even abroad of billions of rupees through online gaming. After the revelation, there was a stir not only in Azamgarh but in the entire Purvanchal. Everyone has a mobile phone in their home and cyber thugs have reached every home through games inside mobile phones.
By setting up a call center inside a small house in Raidopur locality of Kotwali area of Azamgarh city, cyber thugs were very cleverly working to defraud people even abroad. During interrogation, the 11 arrested accused told that first they were waiting for people to get addicted to online games and then when people got addicted to the game, they cheated them. Not only this, during interrogation of the arrested accused it was revealed that their links extended to foreign countries. SIM cards of countries like Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Dubai have been recovered from them. He told that through internet we used to use SIM cards of other countries. During interrogation it was also revealed that Jin used to play online games. These three games were prominent among them like Mahadev App, Anna Reddy, Lotus. They used to send their advertisements to people through social media like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Due to which people got attracted towards online games and used to go to play the games.
spread the net by living in a rented house
Actually, the arrested accused were residents of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. During interrogation, it was also revealed that for the last several years, he had been living in a rented house in Azamgarh and he used to tell the landlords of the houses where he lived on rent that he was doing online teaching. Due to which the landlords trusted them and gave them rooms on rent, but after the revelations, people are shocked.
During the revelations by Azamgarh Police, it was revealed that the accused had about ₹ 2 crore in 169 bank accounts. Which has been frozen by the police. At present, goods worth Rs 35 lakh have also been recovered from the accused. In which Rs 3 lakh 40 thousand in cash and 51 mobiles, 6 laptops, 61 ATM cards, 56 bank passbooks, 19 SIM cards, 7 check books, 3 Aadhar cards and one Jio Fiber have been recovered. Superintendent of Police Hemraj Meena has announced a reward of Rs 25,000 for the arresting police team.
Policemen will get 25 thousand
Giving information, Superintendent of Police Hemraj Meena said that a gang involved in fraud of about Rs 2 billion has been exposed. We are interrogating all the Deputy Commissioners. The information so far has revealed that all of them lived in a rented room in Azamgarh. From where he used to operate his call centre. Through which they used to commit cyber fraud. At present he has committed cyber fraud of Rs 190 crore. About 71 people had complained about this and investigation is being done. He said that we have caught this international gang with very hard work. Therefore, the police team will be given a reward of Rs 25,000.