Fedex fraudsters cheat 74-year-old Secunderabad doctor for 1.6 crores, police arrests 2
Secunderabad: Hyderabad Cyber Crime police arrested two people for cheating a 74 year old Secunderabad resident in the guise of Mumbai police. The accused threatened the victim by showing fake cases and letters issued by the RBI and Supreme Court and extracted money through Fedex Fraud. In this regard, Cyber Crime police registered a case under relevant sections of the IT Act.
Going into the details of the case, the Cyber Crime police received a complaint from victim, who is a 74 year old Doctor, a resident of Secunderabad, stating that the cyber fraudsters contacted her through a video conference call posing as from Andheri Police Station, Mumbai that there is a case against her for money laundering fraud.
Further they asked the victim to come to Andheri Police station for investigation. If she doesn’t come, Hyderabad Police would arrest her and bring her to Andheri Police Station. They asked her that she can also be investigated through a video conference, for which the victim accepted. Following which, the person sent her some fake documents including, Case file, Letter of Reserve Bank of India, Letter of Supreme court of India, Letter of Central Bureau of Investigation-India.
Afraid of the situation, the victim transferred an amount of Rs. 1,60,00,000/- in two Bank accounts believing that she may be arrested by the CBI.
What is the Modus operandi?
Mentioning about the Modus operandi, Cyber Crime said, “The accused Sagar Goradhanbhai Prajapati and Parmar Kirit Nathubha, both hail from Gujarat State who came to contact with Deepak Rawat, resident of Kolkata. They all hatched a plan to cheat the innocent people on the pretext of Fedex courier fraud. Accused in association with Deepak, who is the prime accused in operating the current bank accounts and also provided the current bank accounts on commission basis. They deposited amounts in the supplied bank accounts. Further, another accused Hiren helped in opening & providing the current bank accounts. In order to implement their plan, they opened current bank account in SBI bank, and wherein get deposited the amount of Rs. 60,00,000/- from the victim on the pretext of FEDEX courier fraud. Accordingly, on May 19, 2024, accused persons took a room in a hotel at Amroli, Surat, stayed there for 3 days to commit cyber frauds. They trapped the victim by following the instructions of prime accused, Deepak and operated the bank account transfers for receiving amount in SBI bank account and from there transfer the fraud amount to multiple bank accounts on May 22, 2024. They received a huge amount of Rs. 2.15 crores from various bank accounts pertaining to innocent people on the same day. The amount POH in NCRP portal is Rs.10,00,000/-”
It was further added that the “accused persons used to sell the Bank accounts on commission basis on the transactions carried out in those accounts to the absconding prime accused Deepak Rawat, native of Kolkatha who cheat innocent people on the pretext of Fedex Courier fraud and get the amount deposited into the Bank accounts provided by them. Initially the amount was transferred into one Beneficiary Bank account. On analyzing the Bank account technically it was found that a total 10 cases were registered in all over India on the same bank account.”
In connection with this case, the police have seized net cash worth Rs.10,08,000, 17 cheque books, 22 debit cards, eight pass books, two mobile phones, six stamps of shell companies, one laptop and five sim cards.
In an advisory, police said, “Public are cautioned, not to believe the fraudulent social media calls and video calls regarding courier on their name containing drugs, money laundering and other country currencies and not to be frightened by the FIRs, arrest warrants, etc., issued on their names by CBI / Mumbai crime branch and not to transfer money to the accounts in the fear of digital arrest.”
