Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A team of cyber crime branch on Thursday arrested a POS agent who used to provide fake SIM cards to the gang of cyber conmen who duped a woman of Rs 9 lakh cash on pretext of selling shares of a marketing company. The agent was arrested from Gujarat with ten SIM cards activated on forged documents.
Earlier, cyber crime branch had arrested five persons involved in duping the woman, police officials said. ACP Cyber Crime Sujeet Tiwari said that acting on a tip off, a team of cyber crime branch arrested a POS agent Ashutosh Kumar Singh (22) from Surat.
Ashutosh hails from Katihar district of Bihar and was living in Surat for the past some years. During questioning, Ashutosh confessed selling fake SIM cards to gangs of cyber conmen in return of Rs 1000 to Rs 2000 for the past six months. Ashutosh claimed that till now he had sold 250 fake SIM cards to cyber conmen.
Police team seized ten activated SIM cards from his possession. He informed police that he learnt to activate fake SIM cards from other POS agents. Ashutosh used to take identification documents of people who approached him to buy SIM cards. Ashutosh used to fool the customers and used to scan their fingerprints twice for activating another SIM card on their documents.
The SIM card activated in name of common people was sold to cyber conmen for committing cyber frauds. It is worth noting that cyber conmen called the grandson of a woman and fooled him to transfer cash Rs 9 lakh in their bank account on pretext of investments in share market. An FIR was lodged in this connection and investigations were initiated.
Cyber crime branch team earlier arrested Ramnath Lodhi of Shivpuri, Shanti Bambhaniya, Kamlesh Bhai Parmar of Surat, the holders of the bank account in which the cyber conmen siphoned off the cash along with bank account agents Dhaniram Jatav of Shivpuri and Ashwin Bhai Prajapati of Surat.
