AHMEDABAD:
Gujarat
Police and Delhi Police have for the first time formed an informal task force to flush out cyber crooks from
Jharkhand
, Bihar, and
West Bengal
. The development follows the arrest last Wednesday of two Ahmedabad men, Mohsinkhan Pathan and Sohailkhan Pathan.
Interrogations carried out over the days since the Rakhial duo’s arrest revealed that they provided people’s data to the e-scammers. The most notorious cyber crooks operate from Giridih, Deoghar, and
Jamtara
of Jharkhand.
A top official of Gujarat Police said that the cyber crooks from these areas and Delhi have their agents in Gujarat, Punjab, Maharashtra, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The agents supply people’s data including phone numbers.
“The cyber crooks call people with various ruses, the most common these days is the ostensibly urgent need to update the KYC (know your customer) details,” the official said.
According to police, e-transactions have surged during the Covid pandemic. So cyber crooks have begun to target bank accounts and e-wallets.
“In Ahmedabad’s cyber cell alone, we receive about 30 to 40 applications of complaint about cheating every day, leave aside the police stations,” a senior official said.
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