STF SSP Ayush Aggarwal said that on August 22 this year, Sunil Kumar Jain, a resident of Kishan Nagar, had complained about cyber fraud. In this, he said that on August 6, 2023, he received a message from an unknown person on the Telegram app who said that he could earn Rs 1500 to Rs 2800 for working one to three hours a day and Rs 4000 for working more than that.

Jagran Correspondent, Dehradun.Cyber ​​Crime: Cyber ​​fraud of Rs 14 lakh from a person resident of Doon by luring more profit in less investment. STF of Uttarakhand Police has arrested an accused from Jaipur, Rajasthan. He had lured the victim in the name of a part-time job.

During the investigation, the police found out that the accused had committed fraud of about Rs 19 crore across the country. There are 33 complaints registered against him on the National Cyber ​​Portal. Police from 10 other states were also searching for him.

STF SSP Ayush Aggarwal said that on August 22 this year, Sunil Kumar Jain, a resident of Kishan Nagar, had complained about cyber fraud. In this, he said that on August 6, 2023, he received a message from an unknown person on the Telegram app, who said that he could earn Rs 1500 to Rs 2800 for working one to three hours a day and Rs 2400 to Rs 4000 for working more than that.

When Sunil contacted the accused, he pretended to be an officer of Global KPO Company and lured him to get higher profits by investing in it and deposited Rs 14 lakh in his bank account on different dates. A case was registered in the cyber police station in the matter and the investigation was handed over to Inspector Devendra Nabiyal.

During the investigation, it was found that the said amount had gone to the bank account of Hrithik Sen, a resident of Mukundpura Road, Jaisinghpura, Jaipur (Rajasthan). On this, a team was sent to Jaipur, where the accused was arrested from his house on Saturday.

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Complaints against the accused in these states also

SSP said that accused Hrithik Sen has also carried out incidents of cyber fraud in Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Telangana, and Rajasthan.

This is how he used to cheat

Accused Hrithik used to create fake websites of various companies and pretend to be their employee or officer, luring people into part-time jobs. For this, the task of rating was given by sending links to the names of various companies. After this, he would give money to people once or twice and then ask them to invest for further earnings. Those who fell into the trap of investment, by the time they realized that they had been cheated, the accused had lost lakhs of rupees.