8 of infamous Jamtara gang duping people with bogus customer care numbers arrested by Surat Cyber Cell

Surat: The Cyber Cell of the Surat police has busted and arrested eight members of the infamous Jamtara gang that defrauded people by putting up fake customer care numbers of courier companies, banks and wallet applications on Google. This gang has 744 offences listed against them across 20 states all over the country.

According to police commissioner, Ajay Tomar, last week they had sent a link for pancard delivery to a youth from Citylight area and made him transfer Rs 1.64 lakh. This sum was transferred in an account of Samim Ansari-operated Fino Payment Bank. The police discovered that the account was operated by Samim Ansari himself.

The customer care number that the youth from New Citylight had used to register his complaint had also been used to defraud people from Amroli, Pandesara, Godadara, Umra and Varaccha. The Cyber Cell of the Surat police had hatched a plan to bust this gang by conducting an operation in Jamtara of Jharkhand and arrested Mohammed Siraj Fakhruddin Manjurmiyan Ansari, Mohammed Nazir Saba Lalmiyan Ansari, the accomplice they had sent to Surat, Mohammed Arif Karmulmiyan Ansari apart from Hemantkumar Sampati Ram, Arvind Manji Jamod, Kaushik Babu Nimavat and Shilpa Kaushik Nimavat, who used to provide them with the bank accounts.

The Cyber Cell has seized 9 mobiles from the gang which were used as the mobile numbers on Google. The customer care numbers that had been used to dupe people in Surat were used to defraud a total of 273 individuals all across the country. Investigation have also revealed 76 additional fake customer care numbers that were used to defraud 471 people in 20 states of the country. DeshGujarat