The person is said to be digitally arrested and asked to stay put. To avoid this arrest, lakhs of rupees are demanded. Once the money is received, it is immediately diverted to other accounts.
The fraudsters gained his trust and persuaded him to make a much larger investment. Eventually, he transferred ₹1.10 crore.
Police officer Kuldeep Singh Gunawat stated that Pradeep Sahu uploaded the video on his social media account.
He collected the money that was deposited in these accounts through various local contacts.
In one such fraud case, after cyber criminals threatened to frame Shivkumar Verma, a 68-year-old advocate from Bhopal, in the Pahalgam terrorist attack, he committed suicide by hanging himself.
The operation was codenamed ‘Operation Cyber Hawk’. Police units from 15 districts of Delhi participated in the action.
The cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover’s production facilities occurred at the end of August, and manufacturing was completely halted for the entire month of September.
Police recently said that he was hiding there and committing online fraud in various states. 20 bank accounts, 16 PAN cards, and some illegal SIM cards have been seized from Sariful.
The person on the other side claims to be an employee of ‘India Post’ or a courier company.
The caller introduced himself as Prem Kumar Gupta, an alleged officer from the Anti-Terrorist Squad, posted at a Jammu & Kashmir border police station.