• Tuesday, 09th July 2024

Visakhapatnam Police Crack Down on International Cyber Crime Racket



The Visakhapatnam Cyber Crime Police have already arrested the agents who are sending Unemployed youth to Chinese companies operating in countries like Cambodia, Myanmar and Bangkok to commit cyber crimes by convincing unemployed youths by saying that a computer operator job in abroad, earning lakhs of ruppes and work in AC rooms. Deep investigation is being done with 7 special police teams to bring back those caught in the clutches of China Scam companies and trace the agents behind this racket.

Visakhapatnam Police Commissioner, Additional District Magistrate Dr. A Ravi Shankar IPS is making efforts to bring back the victims to their home country by constantly contacting the Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, I4C, Indian Embassy in Cambodia. 


Day by day cyber crimes are increasing exponentially, people are still being cheated by cyber criminals even though there is a lot of awareness among people. Visakhapatnam City Cybercrime Police stepped into the field and arrested 11 agents from Visakhapatnam City who were sending youths to countries like Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangkok to commit cyber crimes and surprising facts came out.
 
Recently, 25 innocent youths who went to Cambodia and forced to do scam jobs in China-based companies and some others were caught in the hands of China scam companies, on the initiate of Commissioner of Police, Visakhapatnam City after making efforts through Indian embassy.
 
On 04.06.2024 one Hemant Kumar of Tathichetlapalam and Rupesh Kumar of Kancharapalem were brought to Visakhapatnam with the help of Commissioner of Police, Visakhapatnam City. As per our record concerned a total of 14 different agents in Visakhapatnam City sent 158 youths to Cambodia in this racket so far, 24 of them have returned to Visakhapatnam.
 
The remaining 90 are yet to come. On 05.06.2024 one Chokka Uma Mahesh, who was sent to Cambodia by the Prime agent of Chokka Rajesh and along with 5 youths who hail to the Kerala returned from Cambodia. So far three cases have been registered in cyber crime police station and one case has been registered in Gajuwaka police station. 11 agents were arrested by Cyber Crime Police Station remanded under the Human Trafficking and IT Acts. To catch agents who are smuggling people to commit cyber crimes in the country of Cambodia. A LOC (Look Out Circular) has been issued to the 6 agents who were in Cambodia. 
 
The Visakhapatnam City Police, have recently set up a cyber crime investigation lab to thoroughly study money transactions through fund trail software  to ascertain where the funds are going. It is learned that the funds are finally shifting to crypto currency and finally moving to China.
 
As part of the investigation of the case, the social media accounts and other Skype IDs used in the crime have been confirmed to have all the IPs (Internet Protocol) used in Cambodia and Myanmar border areas. Apart from this, during the investigation process in FedEx fraud, Task game fraud, stock investment fraud, IPs were also found to belong to the country of Cambodia. From there they are doing all these scams and looting the money of innocent Indian people. Thus, the investigation revealed that all this crime was being operated from Cambodia and Myanmar.
 
For the first time, Visakhapatnam City Police has identified human trafficking for cybercrime by International Human Trafficking Syndicate. Some other agents behind the racket have been identified from different parts of the country, fake SIMs for cyber crime gangs, Mule bank accounts suppliers have been identified as part of the investigation and informed that all of them will be nabbed soon. They are targeting aged persons, high profile persons and govt. employees.
 
A deep investigation is being conducted to trace the main gang behind this and special police teams have also been formed. If anyone has been cheated by such an agent, they can immediately call Cyber Crime Inspector K Bhavani Prasad Rao on phone number 9490617917, Control Room Phone number 0891-2565454 and CP whatsapp number 9493336633.
 
Anyone who has been duped by cyber criminals and has lost money can immediately call 1930 and report it to recover the lost money. Call 1930 for any such cyber crime complaint.
 
 
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