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Delhi Police bust China-linked cyber fraud syndicate, four arrested
Some people in China tricked a man in India into doing fake jobs from home.
They promised he would earn a lot of money.
First, they asked him to pay some security money.
When he tried to take his earnings out, they asked for more money.
In the end, he lost 12 lakh rupees.
These tricksters used bank accounts owned by other people to hide their money.
Those accounts are called mule accounts.
The police in Delhi found out about this trick and arrested four people.
The police caught the suspects in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
The police also found that some of the stolen money was turned into a digital coin called USDT.
Delhi Police arrested four people for allegedly supplying mule bank accounts to China-based fraudsters.
The arrests followed a probe into a work-from-home scam that defrauded a man of Rs 12 lakh.
The accused, Geetam Singh, Dhruv, Anuj Sharma and Gagan Yadav, were arrested from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Fraudsters' IDs were traced to IP addresses geolocated to China, and part of the stolen money went to Yadav's bank account.
A Ghaziabad raid recovered nine bank passbooks, five SIM cards and a register of commissions for supplying accounts.
- Who
- Delhi Police arrested Geetam Singh (29), Dhruv (21), Anuj Sharma (27) and Gagan Yadav (26); the victim is a man who was duped of Rs 12 lakh.
- What
- A China-linked cyber fraud syndicate that supplied mule bank accounts to foreign fraudsters running work-from-home task-based scams.
- Where
- The accused were arrested from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, including a raid in Ghaziabad; the investigation was led by Delhi Police.
- When
- Arrests were announced on Friday; an e-FIR was registered on July 17.
- Why
- The syndicate allegedly ran work-from-home task scams and laundered the proceeds, converting some funds into USDT cryptocurrency in exchange for commission.
Key facts
- Police force
- Delhi Police
- Arrested suspects
- 4 (Geetam Singh, 29; Dhruv, 21; Anuj Sharma, 27; Gagan Yadav, 26)
- Victim's loss
- Rs 12 lakh
- Scam type
- Work-from-home task-based fraud
- e-FIR date
- July 17
- Arrest locations
- Haryana and Uttar Pradesh
- Recovered items
- 9 bank passbooks, 5 SIM cards, commission register
- IP address location
- China
Quotes
Police officer
Delhi Police officer involved in the investigation
“Technical surveillance led police to Singh, who admitted to supplying mule accounts to China-based cyber fraudsters and converting proceeds of cyber fraud into USDT, a cryptocurrency, in exchange for commission, " said the police officer.”
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