| Posted on: 2012-01-05/23:32:09 | India - Fraud & Cyber Crime News | Others/ |
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A team of Ananandagar police will visit Rajasthan to search for accused in the advanced payment lottery scam unearthed last month. Darshan Prajapati, considered to be the main contact in Gujarat who was arrested on Wednesday, has named other accused in the case, said investigators. Officials said that more bank accounts are under scrutiny. According to investigators, the alleged mastermind of +92 scam Darshan Prajapati, 20, was arrested by Anandnagar police on Wednesday. Prajapati, said police, has cheated several people based in Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat by duping them with promises of lottery money. He amassed Rs 24 lakh in a matter of four months. M S Sindha, inspector of Anandnagar police station, told TOI that they have got a few names including Zahid Gulfam from Prajapati. "Search has been initiated. We have got a strong lead and a team will soon go to Rajasthan to question a few persons suspected to be involved," he said. He added that a list of numbers used by the group has also been collected. "We suspect that they used Pakistan SIM cards to hoodwink security agencies as the call details for such numbers would not be available easily. So far, eight numbers have been scrutinized. We suspect that the cards came from Rajasthan." tnnroute," said a senior city police official. Earlier, staff members of State Bank of India nabbed two of the scamsters - Jeetendra Rao, 20, a resident of Akshar Avenue, Anandnagar, and Ravi Rawal, 19, a native of Bhakrota near Jaipur in Rajasthan - on December 28. The duo named Prajapati who employed them in the work for the money. We believe that the contacts were taken from various valid databases including that of telecom companies, power firms, local survey data and so on. We believe that the database from one state was used by groups in another state. Search for faces behind the nation-wide scam is on," said the official. |
| Source: E T | Location : Rajasthan |
