When Bengaluru police uncover a cybercrime ring operating out of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, 12 people are detained, from dropouts to BTech graduates.
The complainant, a homemaker from Bengaluru, lost Rs 5 lakh after being duped into thinking she had landed a job that allowed her to work from home.
Twelve guys, primarily from Uttar Pradesh, were arrested by the Adugodi police in southern Bengaluru for allegedly defrauding customers with work-from-home schemes that were described as too good to be true, breaking up a cybercrime ring.
Harshavardhan Ojha, a 25-year-old BTech graduate from Balia, Uttar Pradesh, and Sonu, a 27-year-old Mumbai laborer who dropped out of high school and is originally from Prayagraj, were the two unexpected masterminds behind the operation. According to the investigators, one was tech-savvy but unemployed, while the other used his laborer network to help pull off the scam. In their group were 23-year-old Akash Kumar Yadav, 20-year-old Gorakhnath Yadav, 25-year-old Sanjith Kumar (from Bihar), 19-year-old Akash Kumar, 19-year-old Amith Yadav, 22-year-old Gaurav Pratap Singh, 20-year-old Brijesh Singh, 21-year-old Raj Mishra, 22-year-old Tushar Mishra, and 25-year-old Gautam Shailesh.
400 SIM cards, 140 ATM cards, 17 check books, 27 cell phones, 22 bank passbooks, a thorough revenue and expense ledger, and Rs 15,000 were among the astounding items the police found during the bust.
On January 22, 2025, a homemaker claimed losing Rs 5 lakh after being duped into thinking she had landed a work-from-home job, the police said. The con artists persuaded her to send the money in several installments, claiming that her "poor credit score" needed to be improved before she could get her money.
The Adugodi police were able to locate a bank account opened in the victim's name thanks to the money trail. It was made at Sonu's request, according to an inquiry, and he paid laborers to form phony accounts in exchange for a commission of Rs 1,500 per account. Even more was paid for accounts at nationalized banks, with each account fetching up to Rs 20,000. Sonu was apprehended by the police in Mumbai on April 19, and the other defendants were taken into custody a few days later. They are currently in judicial custody after being taken to Bengaluru on transit remand after being presented before an Uttar Pradesh court on April 27.
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