13 defendants from across India were found to have committed a cybercrime scam totaling Rs 80.12 crore by Gurugram Police.

Gurugram: According to police on Wednesday, 13 cybercriminals who scammed individuals all over India through 8,369 complaints totaling Rs 80.12 crore have been taken into custody by the Gurugram Police's cybercrime division.  Rahul, Munesh, Aditiya Chaturvedi, Avinash Sharma, Ram Prakash, Mujummil, Nilofar, Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Harshit Shukla, Atul Kumar, Rohit, Meenu Chaudhary, and Yatin Kumar Pathak were among those who were taken into custody.

Several teams from the Gurugram Police's Cyber Crime Police Station took the suspects into custody.  Six SIM cards were recovered after the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) examined the data of ten mobile phones, according to the police. It was discovered that the accused were involved in approximately Rs 80.12 crore in fraud, and 8,369 complaints were filed against them throughout India.

About 327 complaints were filed against them in India, according to an official, with 18 of those cases being filed in Haryana, including six in Gurugram.  According to Priyanshu Diwan, ACP (Cyber Crime), "the accused used to deceive people in the name of share market investment, loan fraud, and making dabit."

According to him, SIM cards and cell phones used in the crime were also found by the police.

"Regular action is being taken on the information gathered by looking at the devices that the police have recovered from the arrested cyber fraudsters," he stated.  According to ACP Diwan, the cybercrime squad of the Gurugram Police are always taking the required steps to combat cybercriminals.  In the past year, 31 bank officials have also been taken into custody by police.  To combat these scams, we are collaborating closely with various organizations and agencies.  We urged people to avoid these suspicious callers and to exercise vigilance when disclosing personal information to strangers who are following them online," he continued.

In order to commit fraud, he said, "cybercriminals entice people with good profits, invest in the stock market or share market, sextort through video calls on WhatsApp, morph, send links via various means, telegram, pose as a customs officer or police officer in the name of implicating false case, in the name of issuing a No-Objection Certificate, digitally arrest people by showing the fear of implicating them in a criminal case, etc."

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