Based on the complaint, a special team headed by Inspector Arun was formed under the supervision of Cyber Crime Assistant Commissioner Saravanan on the orders of City Police Commissioner Balakrishnan. The special squad, which rushed to the spot, arrested seven persons - Afzal Rahman (24), Karnan (24), Thamizharasan (23), Manikandan (22), Jayasurya Pandian (25), Vignesh Veeramani (25) and Premkumar (33).
Some young people have lost lakhs of rupees by relying on a fake ad call Girls and call Boys available through the Locanto website. In this case, thyagu, a native of Coimbatore, lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Police station in Coimbatore city alleging that he was duped of Rs 7,84,000 by seeing this fake advertisement.
Based on the complaint, a special team headed by Inspector Arun was formed under the supervision of Cyber Crime Assistant Commissioner Saravanan on the orders of City Police Commissioner Balakrishnan.
The special squad, which rushed to the spot, arrested seven persons - Afzal Rahman (24), Karnan (24), Thamizharasan (23), Manikandan (22), Jayasurya Pandian (25), Vignesh Veeramani (25) and Premkumar (33).
Five of the seven cyber crime criminals arrested in Mumbai are from Pollachi, one from Villupuram and the other from Mumbai. They have also kept Rs 8,50,000 in the bank account in a security cordon. They have also frozen fake bank accounts.
We are ascertaining the bank transactions in the hands of the fraudsters. Based on this, the cyber crime police said that it will be known later how many more people have been affected. Following this, an intensive investigation is underway at the Cyber Crime Police Station.
Assistant Commissioner of Cyber Crime Saravanan and Inspector Arun held a press conference regarding the activities of the cyber crime criminals. Assistant Commissioner Saravanan said that a case has been registered on the complaint of the college student.
They were duped by the advertisement and paid Rs 3,000 to Rs 30,000. A sum of Rs 7,80,000 was swindled by the fraudsters. We identified through Kyc and found a location in Mumbai.
We have seized 34 mobile phones and 15 bank passbooks from Tamil Nadu, from where the criminals are involved in the cyber crime crime as they are doing this fraud and going to Mumbai to be safe.
Of the seven, five are from Pollachi and one from Villupuram and one from Mumbai. They have been involved in these incidents for the past two years and have been involved in many scams by purchasing Aadhar cards from the youth. They were involved in frauds in banking transactions through Aadhaar card.
He fraudulently used huge sums of money in these bank accounts and we traced the location of the culprits using KYC information, IP address, etc. The victims have lost money online. They went to states like Goa and celebrated and spent the money they earned through the scam, he said.