Cyber fraudster held in Chennai based on plaint filed in Gurugram

The Gurugram cyber police have arrested an accused for committing fraud by posing as a representative of a matrimonial website. The police recovered 14 mobile phones, one silver bar, 8 Aadhaar cards, 6 ATMs, credit cards and one PAN card from the possession of the accused.

According to the police, a person lodged a complaint in the cybercrime police station, South, that on December 2, Rs 1,988 automatically got debited from his bank account.

The next day, he searched the customer care number of the matrimonial website shaadi.com on Google to deactivate his auto-pay option on shaadi.com. He contacted the number taken from Google and he got a revert call after sometime.

“The caller asked for help and then made a WhatsApp call saying there was a network problem and he asked me for a lot of information. I became suspicious of that person and I contacted my bank customer care to get my account closed by which time around Rs 5 lakh had been withdrawn from my account,” as per the complaint.

Following the complaint, an FIR was registered. While investigating, the team of cybercrime police station, South, led by inspector Naveen Kumar arrested the accused from Chennai.

The accused was identified as Jafir Ansari, a native of village Jargarhi, Deoghar district in Jharkhand.

“During interrogation, the accused revealed that he and his other associates had given their numbers in the name of customer care of shaadi.com. Whenever someone searches for this customer care number, their number appears in the search engine.

After this they come to know who has searched the number. They then call that person themselves in the pretext

of help”.

“In the name of help, the fraudsters get bank account information by asking the person to click on a link and share the screen and then they would commit the fraud. We are trying to nab other accomplices of the accused”, said Priyanshu Dewan, ACP cyber.