Gwalior police expose ‘Pakistani’ cyber gang operation:Fraud centre running from hotel in Kailash Vihar, 4 accused held

Four agents were arrested in Gwalior on Saturday afternoon. An international cyber fraud gang has been exposed from Hotel HG, located in Kailash Vihar, a posh area of the city. Here, the gang was operating a nationwide fraud network by turning a hotel room into its control room. The shocking revelation is that this gang has links to Pakistan. In this, the network of mule accounts was being operated using numbers with Pakistan’s country code. The Crime Branch team is interrogating them. Among the arrested accused, two are from Gwalior, one from Morena, and one from Dholpur, Rajasthan. The Crime Branch had received information from an informant that some suspicious youths were staying in a room at Hotel HG, carrying out suspicious activities using laptops and dozens of mobile phones. When the police raided, four accused were apprehended on the spot. During interrogation, it was revealed that these accused were operating a large network of mule accounts. Instructions were being received from Pakistan’s country code (+92)
The investigation revealed that the accused were receiving WhatsApp messages and calls on their mobiles from numbers with Pakistan’s country code. A handler sitting in Pakistan was instructing them on which account to receive the defrauded money and where to transfer it. This gang used to rent bank accounts of innocent people to receive the defrauded amount. What is a Mule Account Network? Scammers do not directly transfer money to their own accounts. They use the bank accounts (mule accounts) of poor or greedy people by giving them some commission. These agents caught from Gwalior were managing this network and used to send the defrauded money abroad through the dark web or crypto. Big Success for Crime Branch Police recovered several mobile phones, SIM cards, passbooks, and chequebooks from the spot. The Crime Branch team is now interrogating the arrested accused to find out how many crores they have defrauded so far and how many more of their accomplices are hidden in Gwalior.