Nellore cops bust 10 of cyber fraud gang

Vijayawada: Nellore police busted a gang that committed cybercrimes using fake fingerprints. The gang used to withdraw money from victims’ bank accounts using ‘Aadhaar Enabled Payment System’ (AEPS).
All the accused are youngsters who are addicted to vices. They formed a gang to earn easy money by committing cyber frauds. As many as 10 persons have been arrested and 51.25 lakh recovered.
The arrested were N Venkateswarlu (28), T Madhusudhan Reddy (27), D Anand Rao (25), M Saikumar Reddy (24), R Srinivasulu (24), SK Ummar (23), CH Sunny (21), M Yuvaraj (20) N Sudhakar (26) and P Ravindra (28).
According to Tirumalaeshwara Reddy, SP, Nellore, a complaint was lodged on June 16 by one Kaipu Aditya. He stated that his sister Suneetha is a Non-Resident Indian working in the USA as a software engineer. Suneetha informed Adithya that money was deducted from her bank account multiple times in April. She lost 9,999 each in transactions. On her advice, Adithya sought a bank statement from the victim’s branch in Nellore and was shocked to see that several such transactions were made in March too.
A total of 54,495 was withdrawn from her account by the accused using the AEPS and fake fingerprints.
Police nabbed the accused on Tuesday. During the course of investigation, the accused confessed that after downloading the information found online and collecting the victim’s name, Aadhaar number, and fingerprint through special machines and apps, they withdraw money from the bank accounts and transfer the same to their accounts. So far, 51.25 lakh has been found to have been stolen by the accused, and the same was recovered. The amounts were credited to the accounts of some of the identified victims.
The rest of the victims are yet to be identified.