Three persons who had provided their bank account credentials to ‘digital arrest’ fraudsters in exchange for a commission were arrested by the Hyderabad cybercrime police on Thursday. The police seized three mobile phones from them.

According to the police, the arrested Mohammed Rizwan (20), Vikram Singh (20) and Nikhil Kumar (19), all residents of Rajasthan, had handed over their

banking credentials to cyber fraudsters.

A scam amount of Rs 3 crore was transferred into the bank accounts from across the country and the sum was later diverted to different accounts.

The fraudsters had duped a victim of Rs 37.70 lakh by impersonating as officials of police and telecom department and threatening saying the victim was involved in illegal activities.

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