Cyber fraud: 21 held for duping people of Rs 125 crore

The Gurugram cyber police have arrested 21 cyber thugs for allegedly duping hundreds of people across the country of over Rs 125 crores. The police had recovered 16 mobiles and seven SIM cards from them.

The accused were identified as Mukesh Lakhanlal Sahu, Sachin, Anam Kumar, Pankaj Saluja, Deepanshu, Shashank, Pushpender, Ankit Vaidh, Kamran Ahamad, Prakash Chander, Vikash, Sunil Kumar, Deepak, Rajat, Pradeep, Virender, Sukhwinder Singh Saran, Anish, Dilraj Bairwa, Ashwani and Dheeraj.

During probe, the accused revealed that they would pose as FedEx employees. They used to commit fraud by giving victims threats through WhatsApp.

“A total of 16,788 complaints and 672 cases have been filed against the accused across the country,” said Priyanshu Dewan, ACP (Cyber). The accused had defrauded people of Rs 125.62 crore across the country. “The accused used to mostly commit frauds by promising lucrative investments to people through FedEx,” he said. — OC