Dehradun: Uttarakhand STF (Special Task Force) has arrested cyber fraudster from Nagpur, Maharashtra. The accused uses social media platforms to lure people to invest in online trading. The gang used to cheat people online who fell into the trap. Similarly, this gang has cheated about Rs 81.45 lakh. The name of the accused arrested by the police is Vaibhav Manoj Gadge.
Know how the accused used to trap people in his net: Police said that the accused had trapped a person from Udham Singh Nagar district in his net. The accused used to send trading related messages to the victims through WhatsApp, in which he used to introduce himself as a representative of a reputed trading company and assured them of profit by investing in online trading.
After that, they were added to different WhatsApp groups, in which the people already connected shared screenshots of the profit earned on the money invested by them, due to which other victims connected to the group got lured by them and invested their money in online trading in the greed of earning more profit in less time.
They used a fake app to show profit in the money invested by the victims and on its dashboard the money invested by the victims was shown with huge profit, due to which the victim got assured of high profit, but the victim was not able to suspect the cyber fraud happening with him. The accused used the money obtained by fraud in different bank accounts and transferred the money to other accounts.
SSP STF Navneet Bhullar said that in the bank accounts used by the accused for cyber crime, transactions of crores of rupees have been found in just 4-5 months. During investigation, it was also found that a total of 8 cyber crime complaints have been filed against the bank account of the accused in several states of the country, regarding which police of other states are being contacted for information.
