CURATED BY – YASHPAL SINGH JAT | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Anuppur, on November 14, in the case of crime register number 11201018240023/24 section 318(4) BNS, 66(C), 66(D) IT Act, the team of Cyber ​​Cell Gandhinagar Gujarat came to search for the address of accused Prabhat Kumar Gupta, son of Chhotelal Gupta, age 21 years, resident of Ward No. 03 Badra Police Station Bhalumaada District Anuppur. For the arrest of the accused, Anuppur Superintendent of Police Mr. Moti Ur Rehman formed a team from Police Outpost Funaga and got the said accused arrested.

The said accused used to call new people through Whatsapp on his mobile and used to hack Whatsapp by engaging them in conversation (telling about college registration, paying fees for competitive exam, etc.) and sending OTP number.

He used to make most of the girls/college students his victims - He used to take out the numbers of other persons from the contact/chat list of the person whose WhatsApp was hacked through Whatsapp and message them and ask for money.

He used to get money as the numbers were known to him. Then he used to repeat the same process by taking numbers of acquaintances from the Whatsapp of the same victim.

He was doing the same work for the last 03-04 years - used to transact money through Google Pay/Phone Pay Scanner. By giving a commission of 1000-2000 rupees to the common people of Badra, Kotma, Funaga, he used to give their Google/Phone Pay scanner to the victims and get the money transacted in it, then after taking cash from them, he used to give them some expenses of 1000/- or 2000/- rupees and used to bring the remaining money. In this way, he used to make different people his victims. (The accounts used in this way are called “mule account”)

Anuppur Superintendent of Police Shri Moti Ur Rehman has issued an advisory to all the girl students/ students/ citizens of the district that if any caller asks you for OTP of school, college or bank, do not tell them any information on the phone, in case of any fraud, immediately register a complaint on 1930.

In the above action - Inspector JS Patel, ASI Geeta Ben Rabari, constable Hitesh Dabhi, constable Ajay Singh Jadeja Cyber ​​Cell Gandhinagar Gujarat and outpost in-charge Deputy. Inspector Sumit Kaushik, Sub Inspector Komal Arajaria, PR 161 Suryabhan Singh, R.345 Rakesh Kanase were present.

Items recovered from the accused – 02 Android mobile phones, 04 Jio SIMs, 01 VI SIM, 07 Airtel SIMs, Bank passbooks – PNB, HDFC, AXIX, FINO Bank and Credit/Debit cards 08.