New Delhi: One lady namely mehak (changed name) was arrested by cyber police station north district, who duped victims in the name of sending valuable gifts from UK and UAE.
The accused lady used a fake Facebook profile using the name of Amara Gujral resident of Glasgow, united kingdom and contacted the victim in the present case on Facebook.
She also used UK sim card of +44xxxx to contact victims on whats app from which she used to send fake flight tickets and photos of valuable gifts to victims, which was so-called purchased for victims.
She used to call from Mumbai’s number as customs officer to victims and ask for money in name of excise duty for the valuable gift.
Following payment accused blocked victims from Facebook and whats app.
The accused lady namely mehak was identified on the basis of technical surveillance and apprehended from her rented flat in Krishna puri tilak Nagar, Delhi.
She came in contact of several African nationals living in her neighborhood and came to know about these methods of cheating.
13 mobile phones, one wi-fi dongle, 5 debit/credit cards and 16 sim cards including 4 lyca sim cards of +44 number were recovered from the accused lady.
8 fake profiles of different names & residents of uk and whats app profiles from lyca sim cards of +44 were recovered from the accused.
Continuing the drive against Cyber fraudsters, who were duping gullible citizens, dedicated team of Cyber Police North District Led by SI Rohit Saraswat, W/SI Richa Sharma, W/HC Sunita, Ct Akash, Ct Naveen and Ct Mahender under the supervision of Shri Ajay Dalal, SHO/Cyber Police Station North and overall supervision of Shri Jaipal Singh, ACP/Operation, nabbed a lady cheater namely Mehak (Changed Name), who duped innocent people on the pretext of sending gift from UK and payment of Excise Duty using Facebook and international Whats App Numbers.
A complaint on MHA Cyber Crime Portal was received from complainant Dharam Raj R/o Burari, Delhi, wherein the complainant alleged that he received a friend request on Facebook from a girl namely Amara Gujral url https://www.facebook.com/amara.choudhary.148 and after accepting friend request, he started talking with Amara Gujral on Facebook and Whats app Number +4474485*****. Amara Gurjal stated that she lives in United Kingdom and coming to Delhi. Subsequently, he received a call from a lady, who introduced herself as Custom Officer from Mumbai and stated that Amara Gujral was stopped at Mumbai Airport with some valuable gifts and he need to pay money to release Amara. Following this inducement, the complainant paid Rs 34,000 in bank account provided by alleged Custom Officer. Later on, complainant was blocked by alleged Amara Gujral on Facebook and Whats App.
Immediately, a case vide FIR No 06/2022 Dated 28/01/2022 U/s 420 IPC Police Station Cyber was registered and investigation was taken up.
Working hard on the case registered in Cyber Police Station North District, a dedicated team was handed over the task to identify accused and arrest culprits. Technical analysis of Profiles details received from Facebook, IPDR and call detail was done and it was found that the accused is having continuous location in Krishna Puri, Tilak Nagar, Delhi. During investigation, user of the alleged Facebook Profile of Amara Gujral was identified as Mehak (Changed Name), 29 yrs and the accused was apprehended from her rented flat in Krishna Puri, Tilak Nagar, Delhi.
Accused Mehak (Changed Name) was interrogated, who stated that she came in contact with several African Origin neighbour in her locality, who used to dupe people in several ways and came to know about this method of cheating.
She collected some fake sim cards of Delhi and LYCA Sim Cards of +44 and created several fake profiles in the name of Amara Gujral, Lakshikha Choudhry, Avni Chopra, Avantika Chopra, Anamika Gujral, Emily Rose. Photos uploaded on these profiles were downloaded from original profiles of a UK resident.
Accused used to send friend request to Facebook users and started talking to them on Whats App number starting from +44. She also sends photographs of valuable gift to victim Dharam Raj in present case and photographs of flight tickets for her arrival in India. She then called victim from a Mumbai Number and introduced herself as a Custom Officer at Mumbai, who detained Amara Gujral at Mumbai Airport and asked the victim for payment of Excise Duty to release the gift brought for victim. After the payment on provided Bank Accounts, accused blocked victim from Facebook and Whats App.
