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Kanpur: In a major breakthrough, four people were arrested for running a fake international call center in Kakadev area and duping 12,000 US citizens of at least USD nine lakh by hacking their data on Wednesday.
The gang leader is a software engineer with an expert in mobile hacking from Pune University.
The police raided the gang’s call center and recovered several Android phones, computer hard disks, ATM cards, etc., and are now trying to zero in on other gang members in other cities.
‘City Crime Branch team arrested four international’ cyber In the Kakadev area, the call centers operating for the last one year are being raided and cheated. The fraudsters were duping the American people in dollars by hacking their mobile phones through the call center. The team has arrested Pune University’s software engineer Master Mind Munendra Sharma and Noida resident Sanjeev, Firozabad resident Sanjeev, Pratapgarh resident Jikarulla and Bihar resident Suraj Suman. Asim Kumar Arun
Police have recovered 27 hard disks, six ATM cards of different banks, passport, Aadhar card, driving license, five Android phones, American Express Bank debit card, two PAN cards, Hotel Taj membership card from their possession.
No one could have even the slightest clue about the fraudsters running call centers in the Kakadev area of the city and duping American citizens. They used to trap people in a completely different way from international call centres. As soon as a US citizen clicks on blinking ads on a site, such as to lose fat, reduce belly, strengthen knees, increase height or stop hair fall, a malware, a type of virus, is uploaded to his mobile goes. Once the malware is uploaded in the system, popup messages on the mobile start appearing on the screen again and again, causing a lot of inconvenience to the mobile user. He is not able to do any operation on mobile properly. The same happened with people sitting in the US who were victims of fraud,’ the official added.
To avoid the virus, the victim used to fall into the trap of the thug gang as soon as he called the helpline number that came with the popup message. As soon as the trapped person called the helpline number, the gang used to ask for charges in dollars for cleaning the virus and providing service. The user used to transfer money to the specified account, after which he was asked to download some app for technical support. The user hacked the mobile as soon as he downloaded the app.
This plan was sold by the call center in the name of malware removal and service, which was for six months and one year. If no service was provided, they promised to refund the full amount. The game of cheating used to start from here, now when a user asked for the money given back by saying that the service was not good, he became a victim of fraud. Since the caller’s mobile was already hacked, gangsters used to change the coding of account details in HTML on remote access.
By changing the coding of the account, the fraudsters used to send fake messages of online transactions on the user’s phone. In this message the amount was shown to be many times more than the amount to be refunded, while in reality no amount was transferred. At the same time, the user felt he had been refunded more, police said.
“Now, by calling the user and pretending that more money has been transferred to his account, the user deducts the service charge and re-transfers the balance amount to the account specified by the call centre, which was in dollars . In this way, the gang has duped 12,000 people in the US $ 9 lakh in the last one year.
According to police officials, the number of fraudsters could be high, at present, the police have got information from the bank statement of the transaction of nine lakh dollars.
Kanpur: In a major breakthrough, four people were arrested for running a fake international call center in Kakadev area and duping 12,000 US citizens of at least USD nine lakh by hacking their data on Wednesday.
The gang leader is a software engineer with an expert in mobile hacking from Pune University.
The police raided the gang’s call center and recovered several Android phones, computer hard disks, ATM cards, etc., and are now trying to zero in on other gang members in other cities.
‘City Crime Branch team arrested four international’ cyber In the Kakadev area, the call centers operating for the last one year are being raided and cheated. The fraudsters were duping the American people in dollars by hacking their mobile phones through the call center. The team has arrested Pune University’s software engineer Master Mind Munendra Sharma and Noida resident Sanjeev, Firozabad resident Sanjeev, Pratapgarh resident Jikarulla and Bihar resident Suraj Suman. Asim Kumar Arun
Police have recovered 27 hard disks, six ATM cards of different banks, passport, Aadhar card, driving license, five Android phones, American Express Bank debit card, two PAN cards, Hotel Taj membership card from their possession.
No one could have even the slightest clue about the fraudsters running call centers in the Kakadev area of the city and duping American citizens. They used to trap people in a completely different way from international call centres. As soon as a US citizen clicks on blinking ads on a site, such as to lose fat, reduce belly, strengthen knees, increase height or stop hair fall, a malware, a type of virus, is uploaded to his mobile goes. Once the malware is uploaded in the system, popup messages on the mobile start appearing on the screen again and again, causing a lot of inconvenience to the mobile user. He is not able to do any operation on mobile properly. The same happened with people sitting in the US who were victims of fraud,’ the official added.
To avoid the virus, the victim used to fall into the trap of the thug gang as soon as he called the helpline number that came with the popup message. As soon as the trapped person called the helpline number, the gang used to ask for charges in dollars for cleaning the virus and providing service. The user used to transfer money to the specified account, after which he was asked to download some app for technical support. The user hacked the mobile as soon as he downloaded the app.
This plan was sold by the call center in the name of malware removal and service, which was for six months and one year. If no service was provided, they promised to refund the full amount. The game of cheating used to start from here, now when a user asked for the money given back by saying that the service was not good, he became a victim of fraud. Since the caller’s mobile was already hacked, gangsters used to change the coding of account details in HTML on remote access.
By changing the coding of the account, the fraudsters used to send fake messages of online transactions on the user’s phone. In this message the amount was shown to be many times more than the amount to be refunded, while in reality no amount was transferred. At the same time, the user felt he had been refunded more, police said.
“Now, by calling the user and pretending that more money has been transferred to his account, the user deducts the service charge and re-transfers the balance amount to the account specified by the call centre, which was in dollars . In this way, the gang has duped 12,000 people in the US $ 9 lakh in the last one year.
According to police officials, the number of fraudsters could be high, at present, the police have got information from the bank statement of the transaction of nine lakh dollars.
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