COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore city cybercrime police have arrested three people, including a woman assistant manager of a private bank, for assisting cyber fraudsters.
The arrested have been identified as Nithya, 32, wife of Sathyamoorthy of Hosur in Krishnagiri district, M Sivakumar, 27, of Chandapuram in Bengaluru and M Kumaresan, 29, of Hosur.
Nithya is working as an assistant manager of a private bank in Hosur while Sivakumar is a civil engineer.
Sivakumar befriended cyber fraudsters over the phone and approached Kumaresan, telling him that if he opened current accounts in his name, he would receive a huge profit. Believing his words, Kumaresan opened ten current accounts in various banks and handed over the account details to Sivakumar, who in turn gave the details to Nithya.
In January, Joju Mathew, 51, of Ganapathy in Coimbatore, who is a freelance stock trader, was added to a WhatsApp group named "No 999-PIN-Wealth Think Tank" by Mansi Jaiswal, who claimed to be a former employee of Franklin Templeton with experience in Wall Street. Mansi and others posed as trading advisors and convinced Mathew to invest through PIN FUND, a fake company.
Believing it to be genuine, Mathew downloaded a mobile application by clicking on a link sent by the cyber fraudsters and transferred Rs 50 lakh in multiple transactions. When he tried to withdraw the money from the mobile application, he couldn’t and realised that it was a scam. Based on his complaint, a case was registered against the fraudsters.
The cybercrime police checked the transaction details and discovered that Rs 10 lakh was transferred to the bank accounts of Kumaresan by Mathew. The police confirmed that Kumaresan had opened ten current accounts based on the instructions given by Sivakumar, and Kumaresan received Rs 1 lakh for opening the ten accounts. Sivakumar gave the account details to Nithya, who handed over the details to the cyber fraudsters. The cyber fraudsters made transactions of more than one crore using the accounts.
The trio were arrested on Wednesday evening and remanded in judicial custody on Thursday.
The arrested have been identified as Nithya, 32, wife of Sathyamoorthy of Hosur in Krishnagiri district, M Sivakumar, 27, of Chandapuram in Bengaluru and M Kumaresan, 29, of Hosur.
Nithya is working as an assistant manager of a private bank in Hosur while Sivakumar is a civil engineer.
Sivakumar befriended cyber fraudsters over the phone and approached Kumaresan, telling him that if he opened current accounts in his name, he would receive a huge profit. Believing his words, Kumaresan opened ten current accounts in various banks and handed over the account details to Sivakumar, who in turn gave the details to Nithya.
In January, Joju Mathew, 51, of Ganapathy in Coimbatore, who is a freelance stock trader, was added to a WhatsApp group named "No 999-PIN-Wealth Think Tank" by Mansi Jaiswal, who claimed to be a former employee of Franklin Templeton with experience in Wall Street. Mansi and others posed as trading advisors and convinced Mathew to invest through PIN FUND, a fake company.
Believing it to be genuine, Mathew downloaded a mobile application by clicking on a link sent by the cyber fraudsters and transferred Rs 50 lakh in multiple transactions. When he tried to withdraw the money from the mobile application, he couldn’t and realised that it was a scam. Based on his complaint, a case was registered against the fraudsters.
The cybercrime police checked the transaction details and discovered that Rs 10 lakh was transferred to the bank accounts of Kumaresan by Mathew. The police confirmed that Kumaresan had opened ten current accounts based on the instructions given by Sivakumar, and Kumaresan received Rs 1 lakh for opening the ten accounts. Sivakumar gave the account details to Nithya, who handed over the details to the cyber fraudsters. The cyber fraudsters made transactions of more than one crore using the accounts.
The trio were arrested on Wednesday evening and remanded in judicial custody on Thursday.
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