Haryana Police unearth Rs 100-cr pan-India cyber fraud, breaks network of scammers in Nuh

After the coordinated raids on cybercriminals in Nuh district recently, Haryana Police unearthed pan-India cyber frauds to the tune of Rs 100 crore, officials said on Wednesday.
People from various parts of the country including Haryana, Delhi and UP have been targeted by these fraudsters. With their arrests, about 28,000 cases of cyber fraud have been traced across the country, Superintendent of Police (Nuh) Varun Singla said.
On the intervening night of April 27-28, 102 teams of 5,000 policemen simultaneously raided 14 villages in the district and around 125 suspected hackers were detained. Out of these, 66 accused were identified and arrested, the officials said.
During the raids, 166 fake Aadhaar cards, five PAN cards, 128 ATM cards, 66 mobile phones, 99 SIM cards, five POS machines and three laptops were recovered, they said.
Interrogation of the cybercriminals apprehended was carried out with the help of cyber experts. The mobile phones and SIM cards seized during the raid were also technically examined and relevant details were also sought from banks, National Payments Corporation of India, UPI intermediaries, UIDAI, Department of Telecommunications, social media platforms Facebook, WhatsApp etc, a police statement said.
The assistance of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs was also sought to provide the linkages of the fake bank accounts, SIM cards, mobile phones etc. used by these scammers with the cybercrime complaints received nationwide.
“During the analysis, it was discovered that the cybercriminals have so far defrauded around 28,000 people from 35 states and union territories across the country to the tune of more than Rs 100 crore,” Singla said.