Police Lucknow on Wednesday confiscated £1.07 Crore cash, 103 mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, and 79 ATM cards, among other things, in what is offered as the largest cyber fraud in the city.
According to the Hindustan Times report, citing officials came a breakthrough during a joint raid of the crime team (DCP East) and the Gudamba police in a residential apartment in Lucknow’s Jankipuram on Wednesday.
The cops arrested 16 people – 12 from Chhattisgarh and four of Gujarat – after the raid, allegedly associated with a massive computer fraud.
According to the Police Commissioner, Lucknow, Amrendra to Sengar, the defendants operated fraud in betting in India to cheat people from Lakh.
Arrested people were identified as – spring Sahu (25), Sajid Ansari (24), Khemendra Sahu (23), Sahail Ashraf Khan (28), Tikesh Kumar Yadav (23), Sachin Kumar Gupta (24), Rrakesh Kumar (50), Rrasesh Prade (50), Govins Bhals (50), Govins Bhals (50), Govins Bhals (50), Rrakesh Prahlad Patel (50). Prajapati (50), Govind Bhai (31), Abhay Mishra (22), Ansh Sharma (21), Shankar Bag (22), Vinayak Chauhan (24) and Vijay Obijni (23).
“Forged cards Aadhaar, several SIM cards and communication protocols were obtained. The defendant used rented identities, making it difficult to trace the money,” said Ghazipur’s act Anindya Vikram Singh.
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Way of operation
According to Lucknow Police, the accused used a fake betting platform called “Lotus Gaming” to start a massive cyber fraud, where they first aimed to users on a telegram and asked them to join a private group. Then they asked them to download an application that resembles legitimate betting portals.
Gang would launch this application from the backend and showed frequent small victories and big losses.
The fraud victims were asked to pay the token amounts that were transferred to multiple accounts, many of which were open using false identities.
“These accounts mostly belonged to poor individuals who handed over their banking credentials for money. The whole system was layered to avoid detection,” DCP East SHASHANK Singh said.
Online betting fraud reportedly took place with a structured two-layer network where the front-end players interact with victims and managed transactions.
The gang used real and false identity and quickly moved through accounts and withdrawing cash from ATMs to bypass detection.
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