Sivaganga police bust cyber crime gang operating from Coimbatore
The Hindu
The police seized 22,735 SIM cards, 11 laptops, 19 desktop computers, 292 mobile phones, 23 SIM modem boxes, and nine ATM cards with cheque books
Sivaganga The cyber crime police station of Sivaganga district has busted a Coimbatore-based gang involved in siphoning off money from bank accounts of gullible people with 18 persons and seized as many as 22,735 SIM cards.
A team of cyber crime police, led by Additional Superintendent of Police, Namasivayam, acted on a February 26 case of cheating a victim off a sum of ₹99,887.
The victim had clicked a link received as SMS on his phone under the guise of updating Know Your Customer form of a private bank.
He entered personal details on a fake Internet banking site with looks similar to that of the private bank. He also entered several One-Time Passwords received on the phone.
Later, he got an alert from the bank that ₹99,887 had been debited from his account.
The police found that the phone number that had sent the SMS to the victim was in the name of a person from Virudhunagar, but was active from a location in Coimbatore.
The police also found that the phone was switched off after remaining active for 5 to 10 minutes.
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