Tech Support Fraud Busted: The IFSO unit of Delhi Police Special Cell, America’s FBI and Canada’s Canadian Law Enforcement Agency have jointly exposed an international cyber fraud syndicate. In the name of tech support, this syndicate has so far made more than 20,000 people of foreign origin a victim of its fraud and has earned about Rs 10 crore through fraud.
The FBI contacted the Delhi Police through the Interpol wing of the CBI that a large syndicate of cyber fraud is being operated from Delhi and its surrounding areas, whose targets are senior citizens. After which the FBI forwarded the complaint of the two victims to the Special Cell. Based on this complaint, the Special Cell started the investigation and the information was shared with the other two agencies.
Busted the whole gang together
The Special Cell arrested Harshad Madan, Jatin Lamba and Vikas, while the Canadian Enforcement Agency arrested Jayant Bhatia from Toronto and the FBI arrested Kulwinder Singh from New Jersey in a single day. Delhi Police and other agencies carried out the operation by sharing the information in such a way that this entire gang could be exposed together and after arrest in one country, the rest of their accomplices sitting in another country could not escape. During interrogation, it was found that Jatin Lamba along with his brother Gagan used to run a company by the name of PC Support and Care. He used to run a call center in the name of tech support under this company with the money of forgery.
20 thousand people have been cheated of Rs 80 crore
These people used to target senior citizens sitting abroad. First of all, they used to scare them by sending pop-ups on their computer in the name that there might have been a Microsoft problem in their computer or they would be cheated a lot. After which the victims would get trapped in their trap and then they would take their computers in their possession and cheat them in the name of tech support. Many times these people have made a victim a victim of their forgery many times. According to the police, between 2010 and 2020, the gang has cheated about 20 thousand people to the tune of Rs 80 crore. In this case, till now the agencies of the three countries together have arrested 6 people.
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