The police in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada stated Monday they’ve arrested two males from Belagavi for allegedly misusing the financial institution accounts of poor folks to facilitate on-line fraud.
The accused have been recognized as Avinash Sutar, 28, and Anoop Karekar, 42. The incident got here to mild when the Cyber police of the district have been probing a case.
“The duo would lure financially weak folks into opening financial institution accounts in alternate for small sums of cash. They might then gather the account particulars underneath the guise of on-line enterprise and hand them over to cybercriminals. The fraudsters used these accounts to blackmail rich people through video calls, threatening them with digital arrests in fabricated cash laundering instances,” stated a police officer.
The police stated Radhakrishna Nayak, a resident of Puttur, lodged a criticism with the CEN police station after he obtained a threatening video name from cybercriminals. Fearing authorized bother, he transferred Rs 40 lakh to the criminals through RTGS. Nonetheless, Nayak grew suspicious and approached the police.
Through the investigation, the police traced the transaction to a checking account in Belagavi, exposing the involvement of Sutar and Karekar.
The accused reportedly collaborated with cybercriminals from North India through Telegram, supplying them with financial institution accounts for a fee. Investigators additionally discovered that a number of people had offered their financial institution accounts to fraudsters.
The police stated Sutar and Karekar have revealed hyperlinks between the rip-off and Jamtara in Jharkhand, a widely known hub for cyber fraud.
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