Jaipur : America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) found cyber fraudsters who were defrauding American citizens in Rajasthan and arrested them. Cyber fraudsters sitting in Rajasthan have defrauded US citizens of crores of rupees in America. When the matter reached the FBI, the fraudsters were found to be from Jaipur and Nagaur in Rajasthan. FBI provided complete information to Rajasthan Intelligence, SOG and Jaipur Commissionerate Police through the Government of India. After this, SOG and Jaipur Commissionerate Police reached out to the fraudsters. Many call centers were caught in Jaipur for cheating foreign citizens.
This is how they cheat American citizens
The accused arrested in Ramnagariya and Chitrakoot area told during interrogation that they used to call customers after randomly searching on Online2People, Search.com and Fast People Search websites. They would threaten to issue arrest warrant by saying that they would file a legal complaint. Not only this, they also sent a notice that appeared to be a fake judicial order issued from Texas. Then, by intimidating them, they used to collect the fraudulent amount in the form of Bitcoins.
This is how the fraudulent amount is transferred.
Cyber fraudsters deposit the check in a US bank after receiving it at a virtual office. After the check is deposited, the amount is transferred from America to the bank accounts of many fake companies in India through wire transfer. For this, cyber thugs regularly rent online servers in America. Then access the remote PC and use the local IP address. This does not cause the bank to suspect that the wire transaction is being done on an IP address of another country. Through wire transaction, after getting the firm registered under the Shop Act in various banks, they open a current account and get the money transferred to their own and other people’s accounts.
Year 2022: Rs 30 crore cheated from 500 foreign nationals
After the information of FBI, a retired education officer resident of Florida, USA sent a report of fraud of 10 thousand dollars (7.43 lakh rupees). The report said that some people contacted him and pretended to be representatives of Easy Direct Solutions and lured him with a loan at a cheaper rate. Ramzan Khan, a vicious fraudster, was arrested from Nagaur. During investigation, it was revealed that 500 foreign nationals were defrauded of Rs 30 crore through a call center running in Jaipur.
Call center caught in Jaipur, 40 arrested
On the information of FBI, 40 young men and women who cheated American citizens were arrested from four fake call centers in Bhankrota, Karni Vihar, Chitrakoot and Ramnagariya areas of Jaipur. Threats were made from the call center to implicate American citizens in criminal cases and huge amounts of money were being collected.
