An international syndicate of cyber frauds operating from Dubai and targeting unemployed youths on the pretext of providing work from home (WFH) in E-commerce Amazon Company has been busted by a cyber police team of North District in Delhi.

Four members of the syndicate identified as Amit Kedia (30), Sachin Gupta (36), Rohit Jain (36), and Pradeep Kumar (34), all residents of Delhi, have also been arrested. The kingpin of these fraudsters has been identified as Gulathi, who lives in Dubai and operates the whole syndicate from there.

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According to the police, the accused were involved in duping people masquerading as an executive of the Amazon. Not only this, they cleverly created a fake website of Amazon Bank and a link of the website was sent to the victims for completion of fake tasks.

The police recovered Rs 50,000 cash, 12 mobile phones, 20 mobile boxes, 22 SIM cards, 05 fake import-export certificates, 17 pre-opened current bank account kits (including 17 ATM cards and 17 cheque books), one cash counting machine and one scooty from the possession of the accused after their arrest.

According to the police, the statements of the accounts of the accused show flow of a humongous amount of Indian currency. This indicates that hundreds of people have fallen prey to the gang. Due to the huge cash flow, the accused had to use a Cash Counting Machine at the office.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (North Delhi) Sagar Singh Kalsi said in a drive against Cyber fraudsters, a dedicated team of Cyber Police North District, under the supervision of Inspector Pawan Tomar, succeeded in busting the syndicate.

He said a complaint was received through the Ministry of Home Affairs Cyber Crime Reporting Portal from a 20-year-old girl, wherein she alleged that she received a message from an unknown number. The person represented himself as Nathalie from Amazon Company, who on the pretext of inducing her for recruiting her for WFH in the company defrauded her for Rs. 3,15,745. The said amount was found transferred to various Bank Accounts through PayTm.

Subsequently, a case was registered at the Cyber Police of the district and investigation was carried out.

Working on Technical analysis of Call Details and money transaction, it was found that the cheated money was transferred to various Bank accounts of different Cities of India.

During the sustained investigation, suspect Pradeep Kumar, who used to sell activated current bank accounts of his locality was apprehended and upon his instance other accused were also arrested.

One of the accused Rohit Jain used to run a Call Centre in Ashok Vihar, Delhi, and he used the bank accounts for transferring the cheated amount to Dubai.