Team Goemkarponn
PANAJI: By apprehending two individuals from Rajasthan and West Bengal, the Cyber Crime Cell of the Goa Police has successfully cracked two cases of online fraud totalling almost Rs 29 lakh. This year’s May saw the registration of both cases.
The Rajasthani national was apprehended by the Cyber Crime Cell in the first instance for allegedly defrauding a Bardez resident of Rs 21.15 lakh by pretending to be an official from the Mumbai Crime Branch and FedEx. The allegation said that the accused, who goes by the name Ram Nivas and lives in Rohata, Pali, Rajasthan, conned FedEx Customer Care and the Mumbai Crime Police together with other con artists.
They told the complainant, under false pretences, that a package bearing her name had been seized and that people were using her credentials to launder money, trade drugs, and commit theft.
Furthermore, the scammers tricked the complainant into transferring Rs 21,15,744 into two separate State Bank of India accounts under the guise of financial verification. Technical monitoring and analysis during the inquiry guided the police to Pali, Rajasthan, where the accounts linked to the crime had Rs five lakh taken out of them.
After travelling to Pali, a Cyber Cell squad detained the defendant. A cell phone, a bank passbook, and an ATM card involved in the crime’s conduct were found by the police during their investigation, they claimed. According to police, an offence under Sections 66-D of the Information Technology Act and Sections 419 and 420 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been reported, and an investigation is currently underway.
In the second instance, a 26-year-old West Bengali man was taken into custody by the police on charges of defrauding a Dabolim resident out of Rs 7.69 lakh through a cyber scam. The accused, Amariit Das, a Girish Park, Kolkata, resident, and his accomplices allegedly contacted the complainant under the guise of FedEx and Mumbai Crime Police representatives.
They forced the complainant to transfer Rs 7,69,876 into an ICICI Bank account under the guise of looking into a package that was purportedly carrying prohibited goods and was made out in the complainant’s name.
Sections 419 and 420, read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and Section 66-D of the Information Technology (IT) Act have been the subject of a case filed by the Cyber Crime Police Station. Detective Superintendent Deepak Pednekar is looking into the case.
