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The team of Anti Crime and Cyber Unit has arrested two interstate fraudsters on the charge of cheating the bank account of a person resident of Durg in Pandari police station area of Chhattisgarh. On the information of the arrested people, the police has succeeded in seizing an Apple phone worth Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 6.5 lakh purchased with the fraudulent money.
Disclosing the matter, ASP ACCU Pitambar Patel and DSP Dinesh Kumar Sinha said that on the complaint of Rakesh Kumar Sahu, Manish Singh alias Lucky Kumar, resident of Sonipat, Haryana and Wasim Ahmed, resident of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, have been arrested. According to police officers, the fraudsters had committed the fraud with Rakesh three months ago on June 12. Rakesh told the police that on the date of the incident, an unknown person was calling his mobile number from the toll free number of Axis Bank and giving information regarding the credit card. During this period, Rs 5 lakh was credited to his account. As soon as Rs 4 lakh was credited, Rs 4 lakh was debited. After this he contacted the bank and got his account blocked.
Withdrawal of money from account as soon as unblocking
According to the police, Rakesh had taken a home loan, hence he had to get his account unblocked from the bank. After the account was unblocked, the fraudsters cheated him by transferring Rs 8 lakh from his account to their own account. When the police investigated the matter, they came to know that the fraudster had cheated Rakesh by transferring money from a fake mobile number to someone else’s rented account using a fake call me app. According to the police, Manish used to give commission to Wasim Ahmed for providing gateway for transferring money. The police are interrogating the arrested fraudsters.
Manish is a fruit trader by profession.
According to the police, Manish and Wasim are only eighth pass. Manish works as a fruit seller by profession. After coming in contact with an online fraud gang active in Haryana, he along with his friend Wasim planned to commit fraud. For this, both of them first bought stolen data of customers of different banks. According to the data received after this, they used to contact both of them by calling and making them victims of fraud.
