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Bengaluru constabulary person arrested a 25-year-old antheral from Bihar for allegedly hacking the mobile phones of Kannada histrion Upendra, his woman and histrion Priyanka Upendra, and their manager, and cheating respective radical of lakhs of rupees done cyber fraud.
The arrested accused has been identified arsenic Vikas Kumar, a nonmigratory of Dashrathpur successful Bihar.
According to the Sadashivanagar police, connected September 15, Priyanka Upendra received a suspicious nexus connected her mobile phone. Since she had ordered a fewer items online, she clicked connected the nexus aft the sender insisted she stock an OTP. Soon after, her WhatsApp relationship was hacked.
The hackers past messaged respective contacts from her phone, claiming she was successful an exigency and urgently needed money. Many, including adjacent friends and associates, transferred astir ₹55,000 each to the relationship shared by the fraudsters.
When Priyanka realised that her telephone was compromised, she tried calling her hubby Upendra and their manager — lone to find retired that their phones, too, had been hacked. Even her lad reportedly transferred ₹50,000, reasoning his parent was successful trouble.
By the clip Priyanka discovered the fraud, the hackers had siphoned disconnected implicit ₹1.5 lakh from assorted people. She instantly lodged a ailment astatine the Sadashivanagar constabulary station.
Acting connected the complaint, the constabulary tracked the integer way and recovered that the accused were operating from Dashrathpur successful Bihar, wherever respective youths are allegedly progressive successful akin cybercrime activities.
A constabulary squad travelled to Bihar and recovered astir 150 youngsters successful the country engaged successful cyber fraud. The squad yet arrested Vikas Kumar and brought him to Bengaluru.
He is being questioned by the Central Division Cyber Crime Unit and Sadashivanagar police. The constabulary are trying to hint different members of the racket.
