HYDERABAD:
Central Crime Station
(
CCS
) sleuths on Thursday apprehended six persons from Mumbai for siphoning off Rs 1.90 lakh of a victim from the city. Fraudsters had sent an email in the form of an income tax communication and duped the victim.
The CCS officials, in an official release issued here, said Mangesh Tribuvan, Akshay Ashok Nikam, Yaseen Ahmed Ali Shaik, Dhananjay Singh, Ajaz Muneer Khan and
Tushar Laxman Supekar
, all residents of Mumbai, were arrested based on a complaint by the victim,
Shakeba Razvi
.
The victim, in her complaint, said that in August she had received an email from the `I-T department' informing that her income tax return was re jected and she was directed to re-apply to get her refund of Rs 19,246 and some directions were also given in the mail.
Believing it to be a true communication from the I-T department, the victim followed the directions and shared all her banking details like debit card number, CVV number, password, date of birth on the given website, which was a clone of the I-T department.
“In September, when she opened her email account, she was shocked to find an amount of Rs 1.90 lakh was transferred to various bank accounts without her knowledge. The fraudster had also changed her mobile number with another for SMS alert and transferred funds accordingly,“ deputy commissioner of police (CCS) Avinash Mohanty said.
During investigation, police tried to locate the bank accounts into which the money was illegally transferred and nabbed the six bank account holders, who actually allowed absconding accused
Frank
alias Raja alias Indresh to use their bank accounts to divert the money.
The arrested accountholders were given 10 per cent commission for allowing Frank to use their bank accounts for fund transfer, police said.