3 held in Odisha for withdrawing money online from account fraudulently

Sambalpur: The Sambalpur District Police arrested three youths for allegedly withdrawing money online from the bank account of a man in fraudulent manner. The three accused were arrested on basis of a written complaint filed by one Saroj Dash from Anguliapada under Ainthapali police limits in the district.

As per the complaint, Dash had applied for a personal loan online in Navi Finance app and got an offer for sanction of Rs 3.9 lakh on February 5, 2022.

Dash did the formalities as per the requirement. But when he went to bank attachment mandate format for monthly installment, it did not link properly. He thereafter searched online for the call centre details of Navi Finance. But nobody responded when he called up the call centre. After a while one person called up Dash from a mobile no- 7319760303 and asked him to assist to complete the formalities. The caller further advised Dash to download the Anydesk app to complete the formalities.

At about 4:24 PM the same day, a sum of Rs 3,81,168.88 was credited in Dash’s account. But after about half an hour, the person who was processing the formalities debited a sum of Rs 2 lakhs from his account having no- 2136104000001489 from the credited amount.

During the course of investigation, the police verified conventional and technical clues arrested the accused Rahmat Ansari (22) from Malandi in Deoghar district in Jharkhand, Vishal Pandey(21) from Janta Market Station Road in East Singbhum of Jharkhand and Sekhar Gautam(21) of Sikandra Road in Jamui of Bihar.

The accused confessed their guilt during the police custody and stated that they usually create lucrative ads and post in different sites of Google to allure innocent people. On getting call from people, the accused used to advise to share their personal data and manage to make fraudulent transactions.

Also, the accused used to add their numbers as bait in customer care list of different online sites to trap innocent people. They usually procure fake SIM cards from Kolkata black market.

Police official sources further said the accused also confessed to cheating Dash and managed to take a sum of Rs 2 lakhs from the account of the complainant. The accused shared the defrauded amount among themselves. After registering a case at Ainthapali police station with Case no- 63dt 06.02.2022 u/s- 419/420 ipc & 66 ( c )/66 (d) IT Act, the police forwarded the accused to the court.

The police also seized Rs 1,13,200 cash, nine mobile phones, ATM cards of different banks, one laptop from the accused.

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