Jharkhand: 12 fraudsters indulged in scamming arrested in Jamtara; three dozen sim cards, cell phones seized

Acting on a tip-off, Jharkhand police on June 12 arrested as many as a dozen criminals involved in committing cyber crimes in the Jamtara district of Jharkhand. As per the information received, the accused were indulged in cyber crimes for a long and were scamming people through illegal means.

It’s been learnt that Jamtara police had got specific intel about the presence of the accused in the Karmatand region, following which a police team led by provisional IPS Rakesh Kumar Singh then raided Kuruwa and Baradaha village under Karmatand police station limits on late June 12 evening and nabbed the accused.

As many as 7 of the nabbed accused have been identified as Azharuddin, Sahbaz, Ali Ahmad, Saheb, Numaan, Safaz, Enamul Nizamuddin, all residents of Kuruwa village under Karmatand police station limits. The others apprehended by the police are Saba, Razaul and Sagir Ansari, all residents of nearby Bardaha village, along with Mohammad Ehsan Ansari, a resident of the Deoghar district. It’s been reported that one of the accused was successful in evading his arrest and managed to flee from the spot.

It’s been learnt that the police team have also recovered as many as 28 cell phones, 37 sim cards of different network operators, an ATM card, along with other materials from the possession of the accused.

Interacting with the media SP Jamtara, Manoj Swargiyari, on June 13, said that “the police had got a secret intel about the accused making fraudulent calls to scam people from Bardaha and Kuruwa village following which a police team then raided the location and arrested the accused.” It’s been learnt that an FIR pertaining to the crime has been registered in the Cyber police station.

It is to be noted that last week the Cyber police team had also arrested Ishtiyaq Ansari, a tractor driver, for allegedly providing personal details of his customers to the cyber fraudster. It was learnt that Ansari used to collect sensitive information like bank accounts and registered phone numbers of the customers and then was scamming them with the help of his fraudster associates.

Let us tell you that Jamtara is considered to be a hub of cyber crimes where cyber scams run by fraudsters worth multi-crores have been coming to the fore for a long time. Such has been the extent of these well-organised scams that it has time and again made the national headlines.

Earlier, in a similar incident, a team of Mumbai police, with the help of local cyber police, had arrested as many as three accused, identified as Gulzaar, Saeed and Sarfan Ansari, all residents of Jamtara district for allegedly stealing around 1.8 lakh from a 70-year-old senior citizen’s account in April this year.

It’s been learnt that the accused, while pretending to be a courier company staff, called the victim, who resides in Kandivali of Maharashtra and promised to deliver his courier if he paid Rs 2 lakh in his account. After the payment was made, the accused withdrew a total of Rs 1.8 lakh from the account of the victim.

In another incident, a team of Delhi police had also raided Nawadih village in Naya Tola of Jamtara in April this year and arrested as many as six accused for allegedly running a fake customer care centre and duping around 2500 people across the country.

As per a report by the Indian Express, the arrested accused have generated money worth over Rs one crore by posing as senior customer care officials of different banks. The accused have been identified as Afroz Alam, Mohammad Amir, Nijamuddin, Afroz, Sarfaraz and Nasim.

It was then reported that the accused had posted their numbers as customer care numbers of different banks and online shopping sites, and when people, while searching for the customer care number, stumbled upon their numbers, they convinced them to download mirroring applications such as SBI Anydesk and more. It was learnt that sometimes the accused had also sent the direct link of the mirroring application on WhatsApp to get remote access to the target’s device following which money had been withdrawn from the victim’s account.