Daijiworld Media Network -Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Jul 25: Four engineering college dropouts who scammed naive customers into entering their banking credentials on online websites, and later withdrew money from their accounts, have been arrested by the Bengaluru police.

The phishing racket was unearthed by the Cyber Crime Police of CID, who started investigation when a Bengaluru resident Suresh Sakri, complained that two transactions of Rs 5,000 and Rs 2,000 were debited from his account fraudulently.

According to police, Kapil Dev Suman, his brother Sushil Kumar Suman, Sooraj Kumar, and Abila alias Bipl have cheated many people. But many did not approach the police as the amount withdrawn from their account was low.

The police have also acquired 460 SIM Cards, 15 mobile phones and forged identity documents used to operate the scam.

The accused started websites such as www.munafaperday.com, munafadaily.com, paymaza.com, futuretrade.biz and mudratrade.com where they advertised electronic goods sold at cheap prices. They also introduced schemes where investors were promised 2 per cent interest per day.

People, who believed these portals, were made to enter their banking credentials on the website. This information was later used by the fraudsters to transfer money in their accounts.

The cops have acquired a database that consisted of banking credentials of more than 16,000 bank accounts.

The accused used the money gained from conning people to lead a luxurious lifestyle.

When Suresh Sakri approached the police, they traced that the money from his account were credited to two e-wallets. They later found that the money from wallets was transferred to one Ajay Singh’s account in SBM bank at J P Nagar. The account was opened without submitting the appropriate KYC documents.

During investigation, the cops traced that Kapil Dev Suman had approached the bank to withdraw from Ajay’s account. Further investigation showed that the account was actually opened by Kapil Dev Suman using the name Ajay Singh.

Kapil then blurted Sooraj’s role, who was also arrested from Bengaluru. The police got details of 28 bank accounts, one laptop, two mobile phones and four forged PAN Cards from them.

Suhil Kumar Suman and Bipla operated the scam from Bokaro City and were on a run to avoid arrest, were also nabbed by the police.

The probe team was headed by DySP MD Sharath, and the team included Krishnoji Rao, Shafiullah, Vinod Kumar and Muniratnam.

The cops are still trying to trace the victims of the scam and have requested people who have been conned by the accused to contact below address:

Cyber Crime Police Station, CID, Bengaluru on 080-22094507 / 9480800197. Further, they may contact CID on e-mail id: ccps.kar@gmail.com