{"id":114148,"date":"2024-08-14T11:44:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/fraudsters-extort-money-by-creating-fake-email-accounts-of-nagpur-cyber-police\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:44:06","slug":"fraudsters-extort-money-by-creating-fake-email-accounts-of-nagpur-cyber-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/fraudsters-extort-money-by-creating-fake-email-accounts-of-nagpur-cyber-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudsters extort money by creating fake email accounts of Nagpur cyber police"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an “unprecedented” kind of a fraud, a gang extorted money from several persons by creating email addresses similar to those of the Nagpur Cyber Police<\/a> and getting their accounts freezed by contacting the banks, police said.<\/p>\n

Two men have been arrested in the case, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (detection) Nimit Goyal on Wednesday. The fraudsters<\/a>, who somehow obtained details of at least 176 bank accounts, sent emails to the banks in the name of Nagpur Cyber Police<\/a> and demanded that these accounts be freezed because of suspicious transactions, he said.<\/p>\n

The fraudsters then contacted the account holders, told them that their accounts had been freezed because of ‘anti-national activities’, and demanded money to unfreeze them, the DCP said. This modus operandi was “unprecedented”, Goyal added. <\/p>\n

He, however, did not specify the total amount extorted by the fraudsters. The scam came to light when Sweta Kumar Trilochan Panigrahi, an assistant manager with ICICI Bank<\/a>, received an email from ‘cyberpolice-nagpur@maharashtrapolice.in, asking to freeze certain accounts.<\/p>\n

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Panigrahi suspected that it was a fake email address and alerted authorities, following which the Nagpur<\/a> Cyber Police started a probe and arrested Pradum Anil Singh (26) and Shubham Pitambar Sahu (32) from Mumbai earlier this week.Investigation revealed that the fraudsters targeted 176 accounts across seven banks: SBI<\/a>, HDFC<\/a>, Bank of Baroda<\/a>, AU Small Finance Bank<\/a>, Federal Bank<\/a>, Punjab National Bank<\/a> and IndusInd Bank<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Police are probing how the fraudsters obtained the victims’ banking information and the role of insiders is suspected, Goyal said. A court here has remanded the arrested duo in police custody till August 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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