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Five individuals were arrested by the cybercrime helping of the Malkajgiri constabulary successful transportation with abstracted cyber fraud cases during the week ending May 30, uncovering links to cybercriminal networks operating crossed aggregate states.
The arrested individuals were identified arsenic Yakub Ibrahim Khan of Mumbai, Maharashtra; Orsu Sreenivasu of Suryapet district, Telangana; Gunda Nagaraju of Bachupally, Hyderabad; Pilli Aditya of Mettuguda, Hyderabad; and Pagadala Krishna Chaitanya of NTR district, Andhra Pradesh.
According to the police, the 5 were acting arsenic mule relationship holders, providing slope accounts to cyber fraudsters progressive successful concern scams, occupation frauds, lawsuit attraction fraud and integer apprehension scams.
In 1 of the concern fraud cases, a unfortunate was lured into investing done a fraudulent trading exertion aft being added to a WhatsApp banal marketplace group. The unfortunate allegedly mislaid much than ₹1.54 crore aft being shown fake profits and persuaded to marque further payments.
In different concern scam, a unfortunate was induced to articulation a WhatsApp trading radical and put done a fake trading platform, resulting successful a nonaccomplishment of implicit ₹80 lakh.
Police besides arrested a fishy successful a occupation fraud lawsuit successful which a Hyderabad nonmigratory was cheated of ₹2.67 lakh done a fake overseas employment offer. The fraudsters posed arsenic recruiters and collected wealth nether the pretext of processing fees and different charges.
In a abstracted lawsuit attraction fraud case, the accused impersonated representatives of online work platforms and extracted wealth from a unfortunate by claiming that refunds were stuck successful a integer wallet. The unfortunate reportedly mislaid astir ₹2 lakh.
Another accused was arrested successful transportation with a ‘digital arrest’ scam successful which fraudsters posed arsenic instrumentality enforcement officials and threatened a unfortunate with a fabricated transgression case. The unfortunate was allegedly coerced into transferring ₹71.25 lakh to accounts controlled by the fraudsters.
Police said each 5 accused had been arrested and remanded to judicial custody. Investigators are continuing efforts to place and apprehend different members of the fraud networks.
The constabulary besides processed court-approved refunds amounting to ₹50.31 lakh during the week and facilitated the instrumentality of the wealth to victims of cybercrime.
