The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has conducted searches in an on-going investigation of a case at 04 premises of accused & others including at Delhi/NCR which led to recovery of foreign currencies & INR 3,09,64,100 (approx), 15 mobile phones & 07 laptops containing remote access application, Textnow apps, fake international calling numbers, incriminating documents pertaining to US nationals, crypto investments, chats containing details of the fraud and scripts for talking to US citizens.
Name of the accused:
Harish Kumar, Amit Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Athotra, Raj Kumari and Unknown others.
During search, a fake tech support call centre was found where the accused/other person were allegedly involved in online-cheating of US citizens impersonating as the tech support executives.
They were allegedly receiving leads from their source and on these leads they would call potential targets in USA via Textnow application and take control of their systems using remote access software like Any Desk on the pretext of solving issues.
It was further alleged that they would then guide the targets to buy a gift card for installing/ upgrading the security software (which was never actually done) and take the card number from them.
It was also alleged that the gift card numbers taken from the targets were sent to exclusive telegram group for cash redemption through hawala channel.
A case was registered on 10.06.2022 against four accused and unknown others on the allegations that the accused in conspiracy with each other & other unknown persons, had fraudulently gained remote access to the digital resources of unsuspecting victims of USA and transferred the digital assets/crypto currencies from the wallets/accounts of the victims to their wallets.
Investigation is continuing.
