3 cyber fraud rackets busted; 6 held across multiple states

New Delhi: Six arrests have been made in three separate cases of cyber fraud reported from different parts of the city.

In the first case, police busted a cyber fraud racket operating through a fake mobile trading application and arrested three people, including a computer science engineer. A fake call centre linked to the operation was also raided in Madhya Pradesh.

Police said a resident of Paharganj had filed a complaint alleging that he was cheated of Rs 10,000 through the fraudulent trading app.

The prime accused, Ravi Rathore, a computer science engineer, was arrested from Bengaluru on May 3. His associates — Sudama (29) and Vikash Rathod (26), both B.Com graduates — were arrested from Sanawad in Madhya Pradesh on May 5.

According to police, the fake call centre employed female callers to influence and lure male victims into investing money through the app. Investigations revealed that the application was linked to 636 victims and 14,232 transactions amounting to nearly Rs 99.8 crore.

In another case, police arrested the alleged kingpin of an APK file fraud racket from Bihar for cheating a resident of northwest Delhi of around Rs 4 lakh on the pretext of converting his mobile SIM into an e-SIM.

The victim later discovered that a SIM card had been fraudulently issued in his name and that unauthorised transactions had been carried out on an e-commerce platform. Deliveries made using the victim’s account were traced to Delhi and Patna, leading to the arrest of the accused, Sachin (26).

Police said the accused allegedly used the victim’s saved credit card credentials to purchase mobile phones, an LED television, an air-conditioner and a washing machine, which he later sold.

In the third case, two men were arrested for allegedly duping a resident of northeast Delhi of around Rs 10.6 lakh on the pretext of updating the KYC details of his bank accounts.

The accused, identified as Amarnath Rabidas (20) and Bikash Rabidas (21), were arrested from Jharkhand. Police said the cheated amount was routed through multiple bank accounts, while a portion of the money was withdrawn through ATMs by the accused. Around Rs 2 lakh of the defrauded amount was later frozen in another bank account, police added.