One held on cyber crime charges

On credible information, the Cyber Crimes Police Station, Detective Department, Hyderabad arrested Kapi (24) of Yamuna Nagar district, Haryana on February 19 and brought him to Hyderabad on transit warrant, a police statement here said on Friday.

A complaint was lodged by Ms (Dr) Athya Parveen Khan of Nanal Nagar, Hyderabad on July 18, 2018 and started that unknown fraudsters called her on pretext of providing the insurance policies for showing in IT returns and also offered her huge maturity benefits from insurance policies in very short period.

The complainant believed their version and as per the direction of fraudsters she has deposited an amount of Rs 1 crore in different transactions. But, the fraudsters didn’t provide any benefits to her and stopped responding to her calls. Later she came to know that, she was cheated by the fraudsters.

Hence, she requested to take necessary action against him.

The modus operandi was that the accused would collect the information of old aged persons who search for insurance policies and make calls to them with their employees offering huge benefits in short periods for their insurance policies.

The accused further make the victims believed that they are genuine by sending emails posing as Insurance companies. After that, when the victims accepted to take policies, they instruct them to transfer the money through online to get policies. They would send confirmation letters through emails and would further insist the victims to take new policies which are very profitable than previous one.

Likewise, the accused would collect the money until the victims realize themselves about cheating and stop to transfer the money. When the victims question them about the returns, they would stop to responding the calls of the victims.