MUMBAI: More than two months after a 59-year-old home-maker from Kandivli had been cheated of nearly Rs 10 lakh by cyber fraudsters, two men from Pune — one of them is a jalebi seller — has been arrested for the crime.
On Jan 15, the woman got a WhatsApp call from a man who identified himself only as ‘Khanna’, claiming to be a cop . He told her that her bank account was used in a scam and would be frozen.
He warned her that a case would be registered against her, and told her that she was being placed under “digital arrest”. Later, another man claiming to be a lawyer called up. Between Jan 15 and 18, the accused kept a watch on her online and instructed her to pay Rs 9.75 lakh. The woman said she paid through RTGS.
However, she later confided all this into relatives who told her that she had been taken her for a ride. She sent a complaint via email to Mumbai police. A criminal offence was registered at Charkop police station on Jan 31.
The police found that the sum had been transferred to the bank account of Bhaggaram Devasi (23), a jalebi seller from Pune, but his phone number linked to the account was not functional. The police got his Aadhaar card details and found another number linked to it. He was nabbed from Talavde in Pune.
The arrested man claimed he opened the account at the instructions of one Kamlesh Chaudhari (24), also from Pune, for which he (Devasi) had got a cut of Rs 30,000. The other man too was arrested.
A police team supervised by deputy commissioner Anand Bhoite and senior inspector Jyoti Bhople, and comprising cyber officer Vishal Tejale cracked the case.
Mumbai: More than two months after a 59-year-old home-maker from Kandivli had been cheated of nearly Rs 10 lakh by cyber fraudsters, two men from Pune — one of them is a jalebi seller — has been arrested for the crime.
On Jan 15, the woman got a WhatsApp call from a man who identified himself only as ‘Khanna’, claiming to be a cop . He told her that her bank account was used in a scam and would be frozen.
He warned her that a case would be registered against her, and told her that she was being placed under “digital arrest”. Later, another man claiming to be a lawyer called up. Between Jan 15 and 18, the accused kept a watch on her online and instructed her to pay Rs 9.75 lakh. The woman said she paid through RTGS.
However, she later confided all this into relatives who told her that she had been taken her for a ride. She sent a complaint via email to Mumbai police. A criminal offence was registered at Charkop police station on Jan 31.
The police found that the sum had been transferred to the bank account of Bhaggaram Devasi (23), a jalebi seller from Pune, but his phone number linked to the account was not functional. The police got his Aadhaar card details and found another number linked to it. He was nabbed from Talavde in Pune.
The arrested man claimed he opened the account at the instructions of one Kamlesh Chaudhari (24), also from Pune, for which he (Devasi) had got a cut of Rs 30,000. The other man too was arrested.
A police team supervised by deputy commissioner Anand Bhoite and senior inspector Jyoti Bhople, and comprising cyber officer Vishal Tejale cracked the case.
