Admission fraud
A girl Anita (name changed) came to cyber cell with a complaint. As per the complaint she registered her self with an admission counsellor for admission in a foreign university. After registration she received a call from a lady named Sameera (name changed)who was working as counsellor with a reputed admission consultant firm in United Kingdom, for the interview. Anita was very happy to hear that. Her interview was taken over telephone and she was given provisional admission and letter was sent through email. Another day Sameera called Anita and told her that she has been awarded scholarship and she has to start a current account in either AXIS bank or HDFC bank with current account limit upto Rs. 25,000/-. She agreed and did the same. After opening the account Anita supplied the relevant details of account to Sameera, as she was told that the university will deposit Rs. 1.90 lakh in her account and she will have to withdraw Rs. One Lakh and will have to deposit the same in six different accounts and rest amount will be her scholarship money. It happened the same way as told by Sameera. Anita checked her account and it was showing credit of Rs.1.90 Lakh.
Next day Anita approached the bank to withdraw money and deposit the same in to six different accounts but due to some technical reasons see could not withdraw the money from her HDFC account having credit of Rs 1.90 lakh. Anita was in belief that she has already received the amount hence deposited her own money in six different accounts which were from Uttrakhand and Delhi. Next day Anita went again to the bank to withdraw money but she was shocked to hear that her account has been blocked by Lucknow police and an FIR has already been lodged at Lucknow police station against her and she is the prime suspect. On receiving a complaint Cyber cell started enquiry from the emails received by Anita. The full header analysis revealed ip address and the same was sent to mobile operator which ended to a mobile number. The name and address attached to the mobile number were found to be false which were supposed to be from Mumbai. Cyber cell collected the login logs of the internet banking account of Mr Manish (name changed) and found that money was hacked and transferred from Nigerian IP.
Subsequently Cyber cell registered a FIR under section 66 IT act , 420/34 IPC
Name and address of the mobile used by Sameera were in the name of Nigerian Franklin (name changed). The address was not reachable as he shifted to new address. After that cyber cell started analysing the logs of Sameera and identified the numbers to whom call was made. Finally cyber cell had five numbers to be analyzed. After months of analysis one suspect was traced. Cyber cell had the address of a suspect, the house was raided by cyber cell at Delhi and seized 6 mobiles and a laptop but accused could not be caught. LOC was issued against suspect. During investigations the culprits were identified to be O. Addeda (name changed) and her lady co-partner. Mobiles and laptops involved in the fraud were recovered from Addeda’s house but he escaped. After analysis of Addeda mobile cyber cell found the person named EMMA to be the prime suspect providing bank details to him. Documents seized also show his relation with him. Analysis of CDR revealed that EMMA (name changed) is superior in hierarchy of internet job fraud.
Cybercell has arrested EMMA and his wife from their home. Several bank details, ATM/ DEBIT cards were recovered from him. At present EMMA is in CENTRAL JAIL and is facing trial. His wife co-accused in the crime has been given bail due to last stage of pregnancy. Court has issued permanent arrest warrants against the accused who are absconding. Cyber cell is trying to identify the properties owned by the suspects so that proceeds of the frauds can be recovered from them.
