Bhopal: Cyber Crime Branch Bursts Online Job Scam, Two Arrested From Gujarat And Rajasthan | Representative Image
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Changing their modus operandi, the cyber conmen are now using digital savings account of India Post and Payment Banks (IPPB) as mule accounts, which they are using for receiving cash received from people through digital arrest and on other pretexts.
Police officials said that nationalised and private banks had toughened the verification process for opening new bank accounts to ensure that they were not used by cyber conmen.
Moreover, banks were also monitoring suspicious bank accounts and sharing their information with police for identification of mule bank accounts and arrest of their owners.
It is worth mentioning that a week back, cyber crime branch had arrested a notorious cyber fraudster from Kanpur who had duped people in several states of North India including Madhya Pradesh.
Questioning revealed that the fraudster was using digital savings accounts of IPPB opened in other states as mule bank account for receiving duped cash. He also confessed to have purchased mule accounts from people of other states through Telegram channels.
Police suspect that the gangs involved in opening mule bank accounts and selling them to cyber conmen are now opening IPPB accounts to avoid tough verification.
Any individual can open IPPB account even in another city and state using his Aadhaar card along with a rent agreement.
Earlier investigations by police have also revealed that owners of many mule bank accounts were not found living at the address, which they had provided in the rent agreement. Many rent agreements were found to be forged while in many cases, the landlords claimed that the tenant used to reside at the place many years back.
It came to fore that mule bank account holders deliberately rented rooms in Bhopal and used rent agreements for opening bank accounts.
