Bhopal Police has arrested a vicious criminal from Bihar.
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State Cyber Crime Police has arrested a fraudster from Champaran, Bihar who created a website for making fake voter ID and Aadhaar cards. The accused had created a website. Through which fake ID cards, Aadhar cards and PAN cards were made. In MP, 20 thousand voters are using the Voter ID card made through this online platform.
Madhya Pradesh State Cyber ADG Yogesh Deshmukh told the media on Wednesday that the State Cyber Police of Bhopal has arrested the accused, who was endangering the democratic process and internal security of the country by creating fake identity cards through online medium, in just two weeks in East Champaran of Bihar. Have succeeded in arresting. ADG said that the Election Commission of India had sent a complaint to the Chief Electoral Officers of all the states that illegal voter photo identity cards of people were being prepared by creating a fake website by an unknown person. The State Cyber Police Headquarters located in Bhopal received this information on 27 March 2024 through the Chief Electoral Officer of Madhya Pradesh.
ADG said that a case was registered on the said complaint and investigation was started. In this, a team interrogated many people on the basis of technical facts and open source intelligence network tools to establish the identity of the accused at different places in Harsiddhi, Motihari, East Champaran of Bihar and arrested the main accused. Duly arrested and duly seized passbooks, ATM cards, Paytm QR codes, source codes etc. of fake bank accounts used in the crime. Thereafter, after collecting extensive technical evidence, the police identified the mastermind of this case, accused Ranjan father Ashok Choubey, aged 20 years, resident of Sonvarsha, police station Harsiddhi, district East Champaran, Bihar and arrested him in just 2 weeks from East Champaran, Bihar.
Fake ID was made for Rs 20
ADG said that any person can get the photo of any other person through the fake website created by the accused. One could get fake ID by paying just Rs 20 through QR code to get fake Voter ID, Aadhaar Card, PAN Card using name, address, signature and other information or could use it as original ID. Could also use. He told that so far there have been 28 thousand hits on this fake website and since November till now the accused has defrauded Rs 3 lakh through this website.
Accused is 10th class pass, learned fraud from YouTube
Accused Ranjan is only 10th class pass. He learned the entire process of creating a website through YouTube. He purchased the source code through online medium and started receiving money in the fake account by making changes in it. He took a fake SIM from Uttar Pradesh, created fake accounts of Paytm and SBI and also created a fake credit card from the darkweb. To create the website, the accused purchased a domain from a company based abroad, purchased server space by obtaining a fake identity through Telegram and did indirect cloud hosting through American servers. The accused used fake e-mails for every communication.
