Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): In a breakthrough, Awadhpuri police on Wednesday busted a gang of cyber fraudsters who used to dupe people through an app which deals in providing cars on rent.
Police arrested five accused including kingpin of the racket, an MBA graduate, having past criminal records and used to dupe people interested in taking cars on rent in other cities. Mobile, laptops, luxury cars etc worth Rs 2.50 crore was recovered from them, police official said.
DCP Zone-2 Sanjay Agarwal said police received tip-off that five youths living in a flat in Regal Town were involved in suspicious activities.
TI Awadhpuri police station Ratan Singh Parihar and his team raided the flat and rounded up suspects.
They were identified as Yash Saluja (27) of Katara Hills, Anshul Priyansh (28) of Jhansi, Mayank Thakur (23) of Chhindwara, Avinash Pandey (28) of Chhatarpur and Sahajpreet Singh (23) of Punjab.
Interrogation from the youths revealed that they were involved in duping people on pretext of renting out cars in different cities using an app of a company which provides cars on rent to people across the country. The arrested youths were living in the flat on rent since July 2024 and were committing cyber frauds.
48 mobile phones, tablets, 37 ATM cards
The youths were leading a lavish lifestyle and police seized a BMW, XUV 50048 mobile phones and tablets, 37 ATM cards, 8 bank passbooks, currency counting machine, bar code scanner and other electronic gadgets worth Rs 2.50 crore from them.
Gang kingpin Anshul Priyansh is an MBA graduate and has criminal cases against him in Chhatarpur while Mayank Thakur has 4 cases on him at Chhindwara.
Yash Saluja, a class ten dropout also has nine criminal cases against him at Damoh, Bhopal, Jabalpur and Chhatarpur districts.
Modus Operandi Crooks uploaded pic of cars
The gang members used to upload photographs of cars with their mobile number, bank account and other fake details on the app of Zoom Car Company based in Bengaluru while offering them to give on rent.
The accused claimed providing the car on rent in Delhi, Mumbai and other cities. Soon as the car was booked and the company used to transfer 60 per cent of the cash in their bank accounts, the accused used to withdraw the amount immediately.
The accused used to switch off their phones when the person to whom the car was to be provided called them. The company used to block the mobile number and bank account of the accused but they used another mobile number and bank details and photographs of a different car to commit fraud through Zoom App. The accused confessed committing multiple frauds through the app.
