Tag: Cyber Crime

Senior police officials informed that the accused used to lure various persons in the name of providing loans by opening bank accounts. Later, they used to collect their bank passbook, ATM, Aadhaar card, and other documents which were used to purchase SIM cards in the name of victims.

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Sources said Patel's ordeal began in June when he met Aditi on a matrimonial site, who claimed to be engaged in import and export business in the UK.

A youth named Krushnachandra Mahakud was the first to bite the bait of cyber criminals. He had deposited Rs 4000 in an app. Thereafter, he continued to get Rs 800 daily through his wallet.

The EOW has found that these scams are being operated from China/Hongkong and Dubai with some of their support system based in India.

After the police could not make any breakthrough in the case, the distressed parents had also staged a demonstration at the Maitri Vihar police station. 

The arrested scammers have been identified as Anil Hembram of Balasore, who is the mastermind of the group, Deepak Patel and Kamlesh Patel of Sambalpur and Rajesh Behera of Rourkela. 

The cyber-financial fraud came to light after Ratna Tripathy of Nayapalli area Bhubaneswar lodged a complaint in this regard. The victim alleged that she received a phone call on June 19 where the caller introduced himself as an employee of FedEx, Hyderabad.

According to the complaint, the bank officials informed all the concerned authorities but no one could figure out the reason for the mismatch of such a huge amount.

The goal of the scam is to trick you into entering your personal information, such as your Social Security number or credit card number. 

The attackers use poorly-formed HTML pages or a non-supported language to prevent Google from translating the webpage. Google responds by providing a link to the original URL stating that it cannot translate the underlying website.

What is more surprising is that the Odisha Crime Branch’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has issued Look Out Circular (LOC) against such 11 accused in the past two years. However, the EOW has been successful in arresting one accused so far.

A written complaint has been filed by her at Ainthapali Pollice Station in Sambalpur in this connection.

Both were in a relationship earlier, and due to some reason broke up.

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