Lucknow, 25 February: The Cyber ​​Crime Police Station on Tuesday busted a gang of interstate organized cyber thugs, who were duping people by using someone’s fake DP on WhatsApp. This gang used the profile photo of the company’s boss to obtain sensitive information from his account manager. Also, Rs 78 lakhs were transferred to a fake account. The police team has arrested three people including the main accused from Delhi.
Cyber ​​Crime Police Station in-charge Inspector Brijesh Kumar Yadav said that this matter came to light on February 17 when the company’s account manager Sarvesh Dwivedi lodged a complaint that a cyber criminal misused the company boss’s WhatsApp DP and chatted in his name and embezzled Rs 78 lakhs by taking necessary banking details. After this incident, a case was registered under the IT Act in Lucknow Cyber ​​Crime Police Station.
On the instructions of Police Commissioner Lucknow, a special team under the supervision of Cyber ​​Crime Police Station in-charge started the investigation. Using technical resources and intelligence, the team arrested a total of three accused including the main accused from Delhi.
The arrested accused include Amjad, a resident of village Tewada in Muzaffarnagar, Ibrahim Dar, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir, Ehsan Ul Haq.
During interrogation, they told that they are cyber thugs. They copied the profile photo of the company’s boss and set it as WhatsApp DP. After this, they chatted with various account managers of the company and obtained confidential information related to banking. As soon as they got the bank details, they transferred Rs 78 lakh to a fake account and absconded.
The Inspector in charge said that during interrogation it was found that this cyber gang was involved in such crimes on a large scale and had carried out many cases of fraud across the country.
The police is now looking for other members associated with this gang and is searching for information about fake accounts. So that this big cyber network can be completely busted.
