Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Six individuals had been duped by con males who despatched messages urging them to pay their due electrical energy payments inside every week.

Nonetheless, the Fraud Investigation Cell of the Metropolis Crime Department managed to return all the quantity to the fraud victims, an official stated on Saturday.

When the victims made cellphone calls on a quantity given by the conmen, they had been informed to obtain a software program with which the accused gained entry to the victims’ financial institution accounts and managed to switch the quantity from them.

In line with a Crime Department officer, within the first case, they gathered info from complainant Anant and located that he had obtained a message that his electrical energy invoice was overdue. Within the message, it was talked about that the complainant’s electrical energy connection will likely be disconnected if he fails to pay the invoice. After studying the message, Anant made a cellphone name to the quantity supplied by the message sender. The receiver, who posed himself as an officer from the electrical energy distribution firm, informed him to obtain Any Desk Utility within the complainant’s cell phone. When the complainant downloaded the distant entry app in his cell phone, the accused acquired entry to his cell phone. He informed him to make a cost of Rs 50 to keep away from the penalty. The complainant made cost after which the accused managed to steal Rs 1 lakh in two installments from his checking account.

In the same case, complainant Pawan had obtained the identical message and he talked to the con males, who informed him to make a cost of Rs 10 and thus he managed to steal Rs 1.8 lakh from his checking account utilizing the distant entry utility.

Within the third such incident, complainant Anamika was duped of Rs 6,541 by the cyber felony. Within the fourth incident, one Piyush was duped of Rs 60,000 by the accused. In two different incidents, Arvind was duped of Rs 85,000 and Shriji was duped of Rs 36,000 by the conmen.

In all of the incidents, the modus operandi was the identical. The Fraud Investigation Cell contacted the financial institution officers and investigated the case. Thus, they managed to return all the quantity (Rs 3.82 lakh) to the fraud sufferer of their financial institution accounts inside hours. The complainants thanked the officers for his or her wonderful investigation on account of which they obtained their quantity again to their financial institution accounts.

The crime department officers urged individuals not to answer any messages which had been obtained with the title of the electrical energy firm to pay the payments on-line. Make invoice funds at solely the official websites of the corporate to keep away from such frauds.