Chandigarh: Amidst the ongoing drive to make Punjab a safe and secure state as per the vision of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, the Cyber Crime Division of the Punjab Police has busted an International Online Job Fraud Racket with the arrest of four cyber criminals from different districts of Assam, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Thursday.
The modus operandi used by this gang was to lure innocent persons into trap by offering lucrative “Work from Home” jobs through a Telegram mobile app’s group.
“To gain trust, fraudsters would initially give small tasks to the victim, in return, paying a small amount of money in lieu of accomplishing the task. Later, the victim was asked to deposit money on different pretexts in lure of a bigger return,” said the DGP, while adding that with these arrests the Punjab Police has dug up another trail, leading to deep-rooted cyber fraud nexus spread across the country.
Those arrested have been identified as Jahirul Islam, Rafiual Islam, Mehabub Alam and Azizur Rehman. Police teams have also recovered two swipe machines, two biometric scanners, one eye scanner, one fingerprint scanner, 38 pan cards, 32 debit/credit cards, 16 sim cards, 10 voter cards, nine Aadhar cards, 10 bank account passbooks/chequebooks, five official Government stamps, five mobile phones, one laptop, two pen drives and one SBI ID card from their possession.
ADGP Cyber Crime V Neeraja said that following a complaint from a woman— who was duped of Rs 25 lakhs by the fraudsters, a Cyber Crime team under SI Jujhar Singh Janjua and SI Davinder Kashni conducted investigation into the case and found that the gang was running their operation from the districts of Assam, she said.