Bhubaneswar, June 25 : Economic Offence Wing (EOW) Bhubaneswar has unearthed a cyber-financial fraud, duping Crores of rupees, by faking courier services and blackmailing victims in the name of Narcotics Control Bureau, CBI, Police and Enforcement Directorate.
EOW, has frozen 17 bank accounts involved in this fraud and steps are being taken to identify the real mastermind of this scam EOW sources said here on Sunday.
EOW sources said a case was registered on the report of one Ratna Tripathy of Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar.
Trpathhy in her reports said a person who introduced himself as an employee of FedEx, Hyderabad, and told her over VOIP call that a parcel containing six Pass ports, one Laptop, five ATM Cards, 150 Gms. of Narcotics drugs sent to her has been intercepted by NCB Mumbai officials.
When she denied sending or ordering any parcel, the caller asked her to come down personally to the Narcotic Bureau Cell Mumbai or clarify her point
to Mr. Gill of Narcotic Bureau, Mumbai over Skype. If she ignores this she will be prosecuted under various charges including narcotics case and money laundering .
Gill told her over Skype that a case of money laundering, Narcotics smuggling and violation of Crypto norm has been filed against her due to the illegal transactions through her Bank accounts and she has links with Gangster Islam Malik.
Then she was made to talk to one Dr. Balsing Rajput, DCP, Cyber Crime, who showed her documents of her involvement in money laundering.
He suggested her to send around Rs 1.5 lakh to an account number of FDRBI of RBI for verification and assured that if nothing illegal is found the amount will be returned to her within 15 minutes.
Out of panic and shock, she sent the amount through UPI and IMPS. During the conversation for next 10 to 15 minutes, she was given the clean chit but her money was not returned as assured.
During investigation, it was found that it is a huge scam using the name of courier companies and faking as NCB, CBI, ED, Police officer.
It was found that the amount deposited by victim landed in a mule account of one Jagdamba Enterprises in Punjab. It was also found that scammers, in just 2-3 days, had extorted Rs 5.58 Crores (from many victims across the country using this single account).
However this money was further transferred to different mule accounts and ultimately a major chunk of this amount was withdrawn through ATM in Dubai, UAE.
During investigation, EOW, has frozen 17 bank accounts involved in this fraud. Further steps are being taken to identify the real mastermind of this scam and the fraudsters sitting in Dubai.
EOW advises people not to believe such callers and not to transfer money and to insists on normal phone call not VOI, SKYPE orWhatsApp call. It also advised people to dial 1930 or file a complainant in case of doubt.
