29/10/2020 :
Rajkot Cyber Crime Branch has arrested three persons for running a call center in the name of forex trading and swindling people out of more than Rs 1 crore. The three arrested include Jayasukh Chinubhai Sarvaiya, Ashish Upendra Dave and Jitendra Hasmukh Jagani of Junagadh, while the mastermind of the scam in Surat is out of police custody. Police have formed separate teams to search for Jayesh Himmatlal Vaghela of Surat. These guys were cheating people by giving lure of 20-30 thousand every day. An offense under sections 406, 420, 120 (b) 66 (d) (c) of the IPC has been registered against the three arrested persons.
The victim was given an app called MetaTrader-5 to download
The apprehended persons confessed to cyber crime that people were being asked to earn thousands of rupees in forex trading. The latter would text us and give us a mobile number to contact us for the live demo, so people who were tempted to make more money would contact us and we would demand Rs 1 lakh or more to open an account in MetaTrader-5. After this amount was deposited in our bank account, the victim was given an app called MetaTrader-5 to download.
The man from Rajkot and his friends fell into the trap of this gang and lost Rs 8 lakh
A man named Umeshbhai Vashrambhai Gondalia from Rajkot was trapped in this gang. The gang had snatched Rs 8 lakh from Umeshbhai and committed fraud. The victim, Umeshbhai, had lodged a complaint with the Rajkot Cyber Crime Branch, which launched a search operation and arrested three persons from Junagadh. The call center was operating from Surat
The gang had a current account in the name of Zulu Trading at ICICI Bank in Junagadh
An official of Rajkot Cyber Crime Branch said that the gang had a current account in the name of Zulu Trading in ICICI Bank, Junagadh, in which transactions of Rs 64.89 lakh were found and an account in the name of Kurso Day Trading in AU Small Finance Bank was opened in which transactions of Rs 49.44 lakh were made. Is. Police have so far found 19 victims. A total of Rs 687 lakh has been defrauded from these 19 people. The number of scams is likely to be more than one crore as there are more than one crore transactions in both the bank accounts.
The gang members feared income tax if the victim was asked to withdraw the profit.
As the app called MetaTrader-5 was bogus, it was shown to be a big profit. The victims were happy to see that the app had made a meager profit. The members of the gang refused to withdraw the profits, saying they would have to pay income tax, pay taxes to the government or otherwise the money would be deducted. If the victim insisted, he was asked to send 50 per cent of the amount to Angadiya in Surat. The gang members switched off their mobile phones as soon as the victim sent money to withdraw the money.
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