Cyber Crime unearthed in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: The Cyber Crime of CID along with Bengaluru police have arrested four engineering drop-outs for running an online scam.

The four have been found guilty of cheating people and luring bank customers with investment offers and withdraw money from their accounts using the details furnished.

The scam came into surface when Suresh Sakri, complained that two transactions of Rs 5,000 and Rs 2,000 were debited from his account fraudulently.

According to police, Kapil Dev Suman, his brother Sushil Kumar Suman, Sooraj Kumar, and Abila alias Bipl natives of Bokaro in Jharkhand have cheated many people. But many did not approach the police as the amount withdrawn from their account was low.

The police have recovered 460 SIM cards, 15 cellphones, laptops, hard disks, memory cards, data cards, and forged and original identity proof from them. The police have found details and credentials of more than 16,000 bank accounts in the seized database. One of the accused had around 600 domain names of various websites in his name.

The police said the accused would promise interest based on investment to lure innocent people through these websites. Those visiting the websites were directed to enter their banking credentials and the same were captured by the accused, which they used to transfer money from the victim’s accounts to theirs. The accused were using the money to fund their luxurious lifestyle.