PRESS NOTE
CBCID arrested two youngsters at Bangalore in
a Net Banking Fraud.
The
CBCID, Cyber Crime Cell arrested two more money
mules involved in a “Net Banking
Fraud” of Rs.26.55 lakhs. Tr.S.Salahudeen,
Managing Partner, M/S. Ahamed
& Company, which is dealing sale of Tata
Shaktee GC Sheet and Tata GP Sheet/Coil at No.58B,
Madurai Road, Trichy-620008, lodged
a complaint to the ADGP,CBCID, on
5.11.2009, stating that a sum of Rs.26,55,000/- had been fraudulently transferred from
his account via Internet Banking during July
& August 2009 without his
knowledge. In this connection, a
case was registered in
CBCID, Cyber Crime Cell, under
penal sections 66 of The Information
Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 and
419, 420 IPC and being investigated by
the Cyber Crime Cell, CBCID, Chennai.
The amount
Rs.26.55 lakh had been withdrawn through 19 transactions between July 20 and
August 13 from the account of
Tr.S.Salahudeen. The hacker might
have stolen the identity for online transaction either by phishing email or
planting key logger software. This aspect is under investigation. The
Cyber Crime Cell team scrutinized
the server log of the victim’s bank pertaining to the above fraudulent
transactions and found out that the
hacker used the computer systems
connected to network belongs to Internet Service Providers of Nigeria, Canada,
Israel, Poland & Britain. In this regard CBI, Interpol assistance
has been sought to get the user
details for the internet connection availed by the hacker.
Following scrutiny of the statement of accounts of
the victim/money mules, the Cyber Cell team found out the recruitment
of eight money mules across the
country viz. Chennai, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore and
Sangli (Maharashtra) for
transferring stolen money. The money
mules, immediately withdrawn the
amount and remitted in some
other accounts given by the hackers after deducting their commission
of 8 to 10 % were also found out by
the team. One
of the money mules C.Sridhar of Chennai working
as Director-Technical in one of the Engineering Company at Porur, who
had aided for transfer of Rs.4
lakh was arrested earlier on
12.01.10. On 27.02.2010, the Cyber
Cell team arrested two more persons at Bangalore.
As per
the orders of Tmt.Archana Ramasundaram, IPS, ADGP, CBCID, and
under the immediate supervision
of Tmt.S.Mallikha, SP, CBCID, the Cyber
Crime Cell team consist
of Tr.S.Balu, DSP and Tr.G.Velmurugan, Inspector of Police rushed
to Bangalore and arrested R.Suresh Kumar, an
Engineer, M/A 28, S/o M.Ramdas,
J.P.Nagar, Bangalore-78 and
S.Arun Kumar, a Diploma holder, M/A
23, S/o Seethapathy, K.R.Puram, Bangalore-36, who have aided
the hacker for the transfer of Rs. 1
lakh and Rs.3 lakh respectively, from
the complainant’s account to their accounts. Both of them immediately
withdrawn the amount and remitted in some other accounts given by the master
mind after taking their commission.
They were brought to Chennai and
remanded to judicial custody.
Due to
the immediate action by the bank and Police, a sum of Rs. 11,00,000/- has been
returned to the victim by freezing the beneficiary accounts. Further
investigation is on to trace the remaining five money mules at Mumbai,
Calcutta & Maharashtra and
also to trace the master minds of
the organized cyber crime.
